A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY GAMES-TABLE

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY GAMES-TABLE
Inlaid overall with quarter-veneer and feather-banding, the adjustable moulded rectangular top inlaid to one side with a chess-board and to the other with a green baize-lining, enclosing an interior fitted with a backgammon board, each recessed side with a handle and a drawer, to one side fitted with shaped dividers, above cabriole legs headed by foliate and scrolled mounts and terminating in shaped sabots and later horn castors, with sixteen ivory and sixteen red-stained ivory chess-pieces, and fifteen boxwood and fifteen ebonised counters, the chess-pieces and counters later, four mounts struck with a total of five C couronn poinons, one drawer with fragment of an old letter in french dated 1768 stuck to the underside, lacking former metal candlesticks
30 in. (77 cm.) high; 33 in. (84 cm.) wide; 24 in. (62cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The C couronn poinon was a tax mark employed in France between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.

A related tric-trac table was sold anonymously at Millon et associs, Paris, 9 April 1998, lot 108; while another was offered anonymously at Bukowski's, Stockholm, 28-30 May 1997, lot 433.

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