The Brookhill Hall Oak Side Table
ENGLAND, dated 1678
35 3/8 x 122 1/8 x 33 in
89.8 x 310 x 83.8 cm
89.8 x 310 x 83.8 cm
6155
Provenance
The Coke Family, Brookhill Hall, Pinxton Derbyshire.The Coke Family, Sharrington Hall, Norfolk. Brookhill Hall (near Pinxton, Derbyshire) has belonged to the Sacheverell Coke family since the mid 16th Century.
Brookhill Hall housed one of the finest collections of English period oak furniture, most of which was made for the house – a collection exceptional in both its quantity and the quality of the workmanship.
Literature
Roy Christian, ‘Brookhill Hall, Pinxton’ in Derbyshire Life & Countryside, 1968, pp.30-33. A photograph of the side table, situated in the dining room and taken by A.H.Parfitt, is shown on page 31.‘Treasures of Derbyshire Houses: V. The Oak of Brookhill Hall’, in Derbyshire Life & Countryside, August 1970, pp.30-31. Both articles are illustrated with photographs of Brookhill Hall and its contents.
A rare late 17th Century Charles II Derbyshire oak and carved joined Side Table. Raised on six turned baluster legs with stretchers below a decoratively carved frieze centred by a...
A rare late 17th Century Charles II Derbyshire oak and carved joined Side Table. Raised on six turned baluster legs with stretchers below a decoratively carved frieze centred by a shield including the date 1678 and inscribed with initials: “I W E”.
Side tables are used at the side of the room and therefore they are always left unfinished and undecorated on the rear side, since the back was never intended to be seen.