EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY CROSSBANDED CALAMANDER AND SIMULATED CALAMANDER CARD-TABLE
Early 19th Century
The D-shaped pivoting top concealing an enclosed well and folding out to a green baize-lined playing surface on a quadrapartite base and scrolled legs terminating in brass caps and castors
29¼ in. (74 cm.) high; 37½ in. (95.2 cm.) wide; 37¾ in. (96 cm.) deep

Provenance

with Quinney's Antiques, Chester.

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Lot Essay

This window-pier table of Grecian black-figured calamander wood inlaid with golden fillets, has its baize games-table concealed beneath a hinged top, while its Grecian lyre-scrolled pillars are intended to evoke Apollo and are raised on a Grecian plinth with truss-scrolled claw. The fashionable London cabinet-maker George Oakley (d.1840) designed a similar table in 1810, to accompany a circular Drawing Room loo table at Papworth Hall, Cambridgeshire (sold Christies King Street, 23 November 2006, lot 67).

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