A GEORGE II FIGURED WALNUT CONCERTINA-ACTION CARD TABLE

IN THE MANNER OF BENJAMIN CROOK, CIRCA 1735

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A GEORGE II FIGURED WALNUT CONCERTINA-ACTION CARD TABLE
IN THE MANNER OF BENJAMIN CROOK, CIRCA 1735
The shaped folding top enclosing an interior with playing wells and candle supports, hipped cabriole legs carved with shells at the knees, ending in claw-and-ball feet
28 ¾ in. (73 cm.) high, 35 ¾ in. (90.8 cm.) wide, 18 in. (45.7 cm.) deep

Provenance

Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1974.

Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 206, fig. 244.

Lot Essay

This table is nearly identical to one by Benjamin Crook of St. Paul's Church Yard that was in the collection of Percival Griffiths, illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, 1996, p. 169, fig. 265, and sold Christie's, London, 15 April 1999, lot 107 (£56,500).

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