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An early Victorian burr maple breakfast table, the circular reel-edged top, raised on triangular...

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An early Victorian burr maple breakfast table, the circular reel-edged top, raised on triangular...
An early Victorian burr maple breakfast table, the circular reel-edged top, raised on triangular column, carved with scrolls on concave reel-edged triangular base and acanthus-carved scrolled feet, the top of the column inset with a brass plaque inscribed: 'the wood/of which this table is made/was brought from India/by/Lieutenant James Lewis FitzGerald/of His Majesty's Ship "Melville"/bearing the flag of/Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore./He perished/in a very heavy gale, with the whole of his boat's crew,/on the evening of the 30th April, 1835,/in the Algoa Bay,/in endeavouring to rescue a man that had fallen/from aloft; and also his friend/Lieutenant John Gore,/who had previously jumped overboard to save the man./This plate is inscribed by his afflicted father/Rear Admiral Sir Robert Lewis FitzGerald KCH/February 1836/W Powell, Manufacturer, Bath/C Wilkinson, SC. Bath.' H 2ft 4.5ins Dia. 3ft 7.5ins £2,500-3,500
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