Lot Essay
A related card-table pattern with pillar support on scroll-footed altar plinth, was published in George Smith's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826 (pl. XXXV).
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A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD CARD-TABLES
Each with crossbanded top inlaid with griffin and foliate-scrolled panels, above a well and a square tapering column with gadrooned lower edge, on an incurved canted rectangular plinth with scrolled reeded feet, caps and castors, the plinth partly grained, restorations and replacements to the feet
28 in. (73 cm.) high; 35 in. (89.5 cm.) wide, open; 17 in. (44.5 cm.) wide, closed; 35 in. (91 cm.) long (2)
Each with crossbanded top inlaid with griffin and foliate-scrolled panels, above a well and a square tapering column with gadrooned lower edge, on an incurved canted rectangular plinth with scrolled reeded feet, caps and castors, the plinth partly grained, restorations and replacements to the feet
28 in. (73 cm.) high; 35 in. (89.5 cm.) wide, open; 17 in. (44.5 cm.) wide, closed; 35 in. (91 cm.) long (2)