MID-19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN WALNUT CARD-TABLES
Mid-19th century
Each with shaped triangular moulded 'book-matched' veneered top enclosing a walnut banded and green baize-lined playing-surface, above a plain frieze with two paterae, on rosette-filled trellis-carved turned legs headed by octagonal collars, the flap-supporting back leg extending telescopically, on 'British' leaf-wrapped moulded feet with plinths
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 48½ in. (123 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep (2)

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Lot Essay

The antiquarian tables have serpentined tops, with columnar 'candle' corners in 'Queen Anne' fashion; while their chamfered frames are centred by libation-paterae and supported on flowered 'gothic' columnar legs, whose plinths are wreathed by foliated mouldings. These legs, with their octagon capitals and circular pillars enriched with quatrefoils in lozenged trellis, relate to the ornament of 16th century mediaeval posts such as those incorporated as part of a bed acquired in 1911 by the Victoria & Albert Museum (P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1924-1927, vol. I, p. 22). A card-table of 1825-50, illustrated in E. T. Joy, English Furniture 1800-1851, London, 1977, p. 130, has similarly lozenge-trellis carved legs.

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