Lot 296
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A REGENCY INLAID-ROSEWOOD GAMES TABLE
THE PROPERTY OF A FAMILY TRUST (LOTS 283-319)
A REGENCY INLAID-ROSEWOOD GAMES TABLE

IN THE MANNER OF JOHN MCLEAN, CIRCA 1800

Details
A REGENCY INLAID-ROSEWOOD GAMES TABLE
IN THE MANNER OF JOHN MCLEAN, CIRCA 1800
The square green leather-lined top, reversing to a checkerboard and opening to a leather-lined backgammon well, with twin hinged flaps to sides on turned supports over splayed legs joined by stretchers
28 in. (71 cm.) high, 38 in. (96.5 cm.) wide, 16½ in. (42 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 9 February 1980, lot 225.

Lot Essay

A pattern for a 'Pouch Table' of this form with bag to keep a lady's 'fancy needlework' is illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet Dictionary of 1803, pl.65. He ascribes the design to 'Mr. McLean [John Mclean] in Mary-le-bone street...who finishes these small articles in the neatest manner', see S. Redburn, 'John Mclean & Son', Furniture History, 1978, pp. 31-37, pl. 32A.

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