A GEORGE IV BRASS-INLAID AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT CARD-TABLE

Details

A GEORGE IV BRASS-INLAID AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT CARD-TABLE
The rounded rectangular crossbanded hinged top with a green baize-lined playing-surface above a well, the panelled frieze with rope-twist band on an octagonal baluster support with upspringing foliage, on a gadrooned band and concave-sided quadripartite base with four scrolled square tapering feet and brass caps
36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide; 29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 17¾ in. (45 cm.) deep, closed

Provenance

Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 14 March 1996, lot 19 (£1,900).

Lot Essay

This card-table, with Grecian palm-wrapped baluster on altar-plinth in the manner of card-tables in the George IV antique style, is illustrated in George Smith's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1862, and Peter Nicholson's Practical Cabinet-Maker, 1826 (E. White, British 18th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 491).

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