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The top is fitted with two sliding side-pieces, each having two turned drops for handles. The framework, below the top, is inlaid with arabesques in black composition and with shaped pieces of wood, and is supported on each end on a pair of fluted and inlaid columns enriched with masks and leafy strapwork. 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(Paris, 1987). Vol. I p.307\nOak table, Normandy c1580, Private collection, illustrated in Jacqueline Boccador, Le Mobilier Français du Moyen Age à la Renaissance  (1988, Saint-Just-en-Chaussée), fig.211\nWalnut extending table, the property of La Princesse Nicolas de Hohenzollern, first half 16th century, HLD 79 x 148 (274 extended) x 84cm, offered by Sotheby's London 19/5/1995 lot 49","briefDescription":"Carved and inlaid, French c1580-1600","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Draw-table\r\nCarved walnut, partly inlaid with other woods and a black composition\r\nFlemish: second half of the 16th century, or first quarter of the 17th century.\r\nThe general form of this table, and decoration in this style, are of 16th century origin and were much influenced by the furniture designs of the Frenchman, Jacques Androuet Ducerecau (d.1584), and his followers - many of them working in Antwerp in the early 17th century. 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