A MATCHED PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT CARD-TABLES

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A MATCHED PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT CARD-TABLES
Feather-banded overall, each with demi-lune hinged top enclosing an inset green velvet-lined playing-surface, above the frieze with narrow central drawer and one with two candle-slides above two further simulated drawers, the shaped apron supported by four up-turned baluster legs to the back with two conforming gate-legs, joined by a shaped undertier with central lozenge and two baluster finials, on ball feet, the table with slides with three later feet and possibly re-veneered top, the other with some of the inverted cups on the legs possibly replaced, restorations and replacements
32in. (81.5cm.) wide; 29½in. (75cm.) high; 13¼in. (33.5cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

A related card-table, incorporating three drawers in the elliptical frieze, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum's furniture collection (illustrated in R. Edwards and P.Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev.ed., 1954, p.194, fig. 5).

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