Description:

A Very Fine and Palatial Italian 19th/20th Century Circular Carved Walnut Expanding Dining Table with a Segmented Top, after a model by Robert Jupe, raised on a four-legged scrolled center pedestal ending in paw-feet. The top having two sets of original insertion 'sliced or pie-shaped' extension leaves (Twelve segmented leaves) allowing for two different sized tables. Circa: 1900.

Height: 31 inches (78.8 cm)
Fully extended width (largest leaves): 82 1/2 inches (209 cm)
Fully extended width (smaller leaves): 79 7/8 inches (203 cm)
Diameter Closed: 63 1/16 inches (160 cm)

Robert Jupe, upholder of 47, Welbeck Street, London, patented the design for a circular expanding dining table with removable segmented top in 1835. The specification stated 'an improved expanding table, so constructed that the sections composing the surface may be caused to diverge from a common centre and that the spaces caused thereby may be filled up by inserting leaves or filling pieces'

Ref.: A1402