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Lot Essay
These window-pier card-tables with Roman pillars and hollow-sided 'altar' plinths with pateraed feet, are likely to have been provided en suite with a circular drawing-room 'loo' table. Patterns for related 'revolving top' tables featured in George Smith's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826, pl. XXXV.
The 1857 inventory label does not appear on other furniture from Benacre Hall, Suffolk so they are likely to have been introduced to the house during the 20th Century. The scrolled truss bracket at each side may be a distinctive Scottish feature, seen on a Library table by Andrew Fleming (D. Jones (introd.), The Edinburgh Cabinet and Chair Makers' Books of Prices 1805-1825, Kirkaldy, 2000, p. 16, fig. 26). A single card-table table of similar form, with bead-and-reel sunk panels, was sold anonymously, Christie's Scotland, 25/26 November 1998, lot 221 (£2,990).
The 1857 inventory label does not appear on other furniture from Benacre Hall, Suffolk so they are likely to have been introduced to the house during the 20th Century. The scrolled truss bracket at each side may be a distinctive Scottish feature, seen on a Library table by Andrew Fleming (D. Jones (introd.), The Edinburgh Cabinet and Chair Makers' Books of Prices 1805-1825, Kirkaldy, 2000, p. 16, fig. 26). A single card-table table of similar form, with bead-and-reel sunk panels, was sold anonymously, Christie's Scotland, 25/26 November 1998, lot 221 (£2,990).