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Ernst Plishke Circular Extension Dining Table & Six Chairs, maple veneer top with NZ birch base, some losses to lower edge, together with six chairs in the style of Paolo Buffa, table 29.92 in. high, 48.03 in. wide closed, 65.75 in. long extended. Provenance: Sutch-Ovenden Collection, Wellington

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  • Maple - Maple, native to North America, is a dense heavy timber from light to yellow-brown in colour. It has very little distincive graining unless it is one of the variants such as birds-eye maple or burr maple, so was not used extensively for furniture in 18th and 19th century, where cabinetmakers and designers preferred timbers with more distinctive features such as mahogany, walnut, rosewood and oak.

    Birds-eye maple has a seres of small spots linked by undulating lines in the grain, is highly sough and is used as a decorative veneer. Burr maple has larger and irregular grain swirls than birds-eye maple.
  • Manner of .... / Style of ..... - A cataloguing term where the item, in the opinion of the cataloguer is a work in the style of the artist, craftsman or designer, possibly of a later period.

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