Lot 172
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (lots 172 - 186)
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY CARD-TABLES crossbanded overall in tulipwood and inlaid with ebonised and boxwood lines, each with hinged semi-elliptical top centred by a flowerhead admidst entwined foliate marquetry, with panelled frieze and on square tapering legs headed by paterae and with splayed feet, restorations

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY CARD-TABLES crossbanded overall in tulipwood and inlaid with ebonised and boxwood lines, each with hinged semi-elliptical top centred by a flowerhead admidst entwined foliate marquetry, with panelled frieze and on square tapering legs headed by paterae and with splayed feet, restorations
36in. (1.5cm.) wide; 29in. (73.5) high; 17¾in. (45cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

The elliptical table's inlaid laurel-branches emrging from arabesque acanthus-scroll relate to that of a table supplied for Langley's, Essex, when the court cabinet-maker Charles Elliot was furnishing the house in the late 1790s (see: Charles Elliot, 'Royal Cabinet-Maker', Connoisseur, June 1959, p. 36, fig. 5)

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