A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-INLAID CALAMANDER AND EBONY GAMES TABLES

BY GEORGE OAKLEY, CIRCA 1810

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A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-INLAID CALAMANDER AND EBONY GAMES TABLES
By George Oakley, circa 1810
Each rounded hinged top with ebony border inset with stylized stars and enclosing a baize-lined interior swivelling above a well, on four ringed columnar supports supported on a platform and splayed line-inlaid legs with brass feet and casters
29 in. (76 cm.) high, 36 in. (93.5 cm.) wide, 17 in. (44.5 cm.) deep (2)

來源

Possibly supplied to Charles Madryll Cheere for Papworth Hall, Cambridgeshire in circa 1810.
Purchased from Michael Goedhuis, London in 1985.

拍品專文

This table may form part of a large documented commission supplied by George Oakley for Charles Madryll Cheere at Papworth Hall, Cambridge, after 1809. A games table of virtually identical form from Papworth Hall, subsequently inherited by Mrs. Stileman is illustrated in R. Edwards, ed., The Dictionary of English Furniture, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1954, vol. III, p. 202, fig. 42. A nest of tables also probably from this commission with the same distinctive brass inlay in ebony on a calamander ground was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 21 January 1999, lot 476.

George Oakley (d.1840) worked in partnership with various cabinet-makers including George Shackleton and George Seddon, producing furniture in the Grecian taste and specializing in 'buhl' inlay (Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, pp.658-660).