Victorian Walnut Canterbury / Whatnot from Antique-Antiques-UK

Antique Victorian Walnut Canterbury / Whatnot

£1500

Victorian Burr Walnut Canterbury Circa 1860 of most beautifully figured burr walnut, with fine pierced fretwork panels, the upper shelf on turned and spiral incised supports, the serpentine front base fitted with dividers, and a shallow drawer,

Victorian Burr Walnut Canterbury
Victorian Burr Walnut Canterbury - close up of burr walnut graining

ref 2155

Circa 1880, and very pretty, the upper section formed as a galleried shelf, and with slender column supports and shaped fretwork panels supported on a lower Canterbury section with dividers, and also fitted with a shallow drawer to the base. This is now sold for other canterbury click here
Victorian Walnut Canterbury
Antique Walnut Canterbury

Canterbury
A term now applied to a stand with divisions for holding sheet music (though more often used for magazines and newspapers) it was originally said to have been a type of dumb waiter invented by an Archbishop of Canterbury - Sheraton describes it as ‘made to stand by a table at supper, with a circular end, and three partitions crosswise to hold knives, forks and plates at that end which is made circular on purpose’.

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