Lot Essay
The card-table's mosaic parquetried top relates to that of pembroke tables thought to have been supplied in the 1770s for Burderop Park, near Swindon and Corsham Court, Wiltshire by Henry Hill, cabinet-maker of Marlborough (d. 1778). The parquetried and rounded edge top also features on a tea-table with serpentined and scallop-embossed frame sold in 1985 from Littlecote House, Wiltshire and now attributed to Hill (see L. Wood, The Lady Lever Art Gallery: Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, no.4, figs. 47-49, 52)