Beschreibung:

AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK CIRCULAR CENTRE TABLE
THE OAK MID-18TH CENTURY SALVAGED FROM HMS ROYAL GEORGE, THE SILVER MOUNTS MARKED THOMAS AND FREDERICK FRANCIS 1854
AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK CIRCULAR CENTRE TABLE THE OAK MID-18TH CENTURY SALVAGED FROM HMS ROYAL GEORGE, THE SILVER MOUNTS MARKED THOMAS AND FREDERICK FRANCIS 1854 The top with a rope-twist edge and centred by concentric inset silver bands, centred by a coat of arms, a band of trailing oak branches, and an outer band inscribed 'THE WOOD OF WHICH THIS TABLE IS MADE WAS A MIDSHIP FLOOR TIMBER OF THE ROYAL GEORGE AND WAS HAULED UP IN THE TRAWL OF EARL FITZHARDINGE'S YACHT IMOGINE WHILE FISHING AT SPITHEAD AUGUST 1850', each with assay marks for Thomas and Frederick Francis 1854, the frieze channeled and studded, on quadruple twinned tapering cannon supports joined by similar stretchers, all linked by carved rope collars and rings and with turned feet, inscribed in chalk to underside G....RD 29 in. (74 cm.) high; 60 in. (152 cm.) diameter