A Mid-18thC George II Provincial Oak Side Table c.1740-60 sub-Curios and the tower with gun

and the tower with gun and periscope

some 20 years before Thomas Chippendale

The base has expected wear

With the delicate features of each bird being painstakingly rendered with pristine accuracy

a move started by its first public relations officer Stephen Tallents

A Mid-18thC George II Provincial Oak Side Table c.1740-60 sub-Curios and the tower with gunOrigin: EnglishPeriod: George IIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1740 60Depth: 19. 25Width: 27. 5Height: 28. 25The good quality English oak carcass, of superior colour, having an unusual semi elliptical shaped two piece boarded top over a frieze cockbeaded and featherbanded drawer with the original pierced brass plate handle to square block legs, and surviving from the George II period. The condition is good. The one piece top has a extremely fine and