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Murphie
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11/09/2016 12:05 am  

First post here.
This table -and four Wegner chairs- was bought at a yard sale about thirty years ago and has been in the house ever since. I'd love to learn more about it. To a novice it appears to have a teak top, and it is missing the leaf.
I've always loved the design, particularly the delicate arch in the skirt between the legs that allows just a bit more room for legs under the table. I'd like to learn more about it, designer other comments or perhaps the time period if that might be determined from the label style. Photo quality is not the best, if there are additional details you'd like to see I'd be happy to take more.
Thanks very much

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Murphie
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22/09/2016 1:57 am  

I hope I did not cross some line with my first post. I'd greatly appreciate any thoughts about this table. Thanks


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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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22/09/2016 5:35 am  

As best I know there were no lines crossed. I haven't the faintest idea about this table. In lieu of that, why don't you post some more photos. Lets see the hardware, sliders, leaves, etc, etc.


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Murphie
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22/09/2016 5:00 pm  

Thanks Leif! Here are some more photos I took this morning. Unfortunately the leaves are missing.
There is not really a lot of hardware, just the leg bolts and the screws that hold the fixed part of the slider to the top. I did get a couple of shots of the wood tenon that the slider moves in. The top appears to be solid wood, and you can see the apron is constructed of shorter curved pieces. I did not get a good photo of it but the exterior of the apron is of veneer construction, and about 3mm thick.
Would greatly appreciate thoughts and observations.




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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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22/09/2016 5:33 pm  

I do believe you are right that the top is solid teak. And really wide boards too. The rails are solid teak, which is pretty unusual. Pontoppidan was, of course, a cabinetmaker, and this sort of thing is more common among the cabinet makers.
Ludvig Pontopida worked with so many designers, and often a table looks like a table looks like a table, so it is hard to even guess stylistically to whom you might attribute it.
Any idea when it was made? Was there other furniture that might hint at age?


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Murphie
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22/09/2016 6:57 pm  

Thanks.
No real idea when it was made, I was hoping that there might have been stylistic changes in the maker's mark that might be recognized.
I bought the table at a yard sale about thirty years ago, and it came with four Wegner CH24 wishbone chairs, but no history at all. The chairs were rerushed before I got them and all labels removed at some point but local experts believe they are not copies or recent.
For fun, one more photo of the set in use, circa 1990. Fortunately the table was covered!


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Murphie
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22/09/2016 7:12 pm  

If it helps with the timeline, I looked again at the CH24 chairs. They are not branded, but I do not know when branding ended and labelling began. In any case, any labels are missing. However, on two of the chairs there are identical marks, and hand cut "v" on top of a "W", like a Volkswagen logo, as well as being stamped "0" and "8" , the two numbers on their sides. The other two chairs have no marks that I can see.
Thanks


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cdsilva
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23/09/2016 4:48 am  

Nice table. Is the curved skirt made of Oregon Pine (aka old growth Douglas Fir from the Pacific Northwest)?


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leif ericson - Zephyr Renner
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23/09/2016 9:21 am  

I am sure someone somewhere can easily, and immediately tell the difference between spruce, pine, fir, hemlock, etc but i find it often hard to do so.
I can tell you that it has tight grain and I don't see any knots, so it is quality wood they used there.


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