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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK, BURR WALNUT AND MARQUETRY GAMES-TABLE
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK, BURR WALNUT AND MARQUETRY GAMES-TABLE

MID-19TH CENTURY

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK, BURR WALNUT AND MARQUETRY GAMES-TABLE
MID-19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top inlaid with a chess board and surrounded by marquetry panels and crossbanded with parquetry lozenges, above a frieze with amboyna panels crossbanded in kingwood and centred by a frieze drawer with ebonised roundel depicting a crest of a boar's head on each side, on square faceted and turned spirally-fluted legs joined by arched stretchers and a horizontal spirally-fluted stretcher, on shaped bracket feet
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide; 18¼ in. (46.5 cm.) deep
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The richly-mosaiced games-table embellished with an heraldic 'boar' crest, is designed in the Elizabethan 'Old English' fashion popularised by the architect Bruce Talbert (d. 1881), who provided designs for leading firms such as Gillows or Holland and Sons, and was the author of Gothic Forms Applied to Furniture, Metal Work and Decoration for Domestic Purposes, 1868.

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