A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CARD-TABLE

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CARD-TABLE
The hinged rectangular eared top with a green baize-lined playing- surface flanked by four counter-wells, above a frieze, enclosing a drawer to the right-hand side, with gadrooned moulding on gateleg-action cabriole legs headed by acanthus-scrolls, with claw feet, one of the pad feet to the reverse with later tip, with the original description from the 1905 Christie's catalogue to the inside of the drawer
31½ in. (80 cm.) wide; 28½ in. (72. cm.) high; 15½ in. (39½ cm.) deep, closed

Provenance

J. G. Menzies Esq., 44 Great Cumberland Place, London, in these Rooms, 24 February 1905, lot 80 (18 gns. to Pike).

Lot Essay

A related table with similar shaped and reed-gadrooned top, but differently carved legs terminating in claw feet, is illustrated in H. Cescinsky, The Old-World House, Its Furniture and Decoration, London, 1924, p. 181. A further related tea-table with similar eared top and acanthus-headed legs terminating in claw feet, was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 6 June 1996, lot 20.

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