A massive Regency mahogany extending dining table early 19th century

the rounded rectangular top with reeded edges and on three quadruped and two trestle supports with moulded sabre legs ending in brass cappings and castors, the underside of each quadruped section with turned pull-bar and brass catch releasing a tilt-top, with three additional leaves and clips

The State Dining Room Chatsworth, from the Late 19th Century

Photographed in the State Dining Room in the late 19th Century, illustrated below

The Duchess of Devonshire, Chatsworth - The House, London, 2002, p. 123

An impressive table. A fine colour. There are many old scratches to the top and some stains. Some light chipping around the edges and only minor marks and scratches to the base. The trestle supports have some metal reinforcements to the joints of some legs. These are clearly visible. Three leaves are much darker in colour. There are chips to the edges of all leaves particularly at the corners. There is characteristic warping to the top consistent with age and use. There has been some characteristic shrinkage to the leaves with the consequence that when the leaves are clipped in there is a slight gap between them. One d- end section has large triangular patches along the inner edge. The other has age cracks. There are chips to the edges of all leaves with some losses to timber. There are other age cracks and some minor shrinkage to the top sections. The central section of the table is of differring construction to the other sections but the timbers appear to match. Old marks and scratches throughout consistent with age and use.
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The Dowager (op. cit.) writes ...the flower carpet and the table were made for the room, I do not know their breed. The table may well have been that purchased for Wyatville's new State Dining Room which the 6th Duke had in rediness for Princess Victoria's visit in 1832 when she was just thirteen years old, the Duke noting;

'The first dinner given in this room was for Queen Victoria at the age of thirteen, when she came here with the Duchess of Kent (saying first, I must add, that there had been a cooked rehersal the day before). It was her first experience of a dinner with grown-up people.'