A PAIR OF REGENCY ROSEWOOD CARD-TABLES

THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE W.P. BARBOUR, SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS (Lots 21-26)

Details

A PAIR OF REGENCY ROSEWOOD CARD-TABLES
Each with a rounded rectangular hinged top enclosing a green baize-lined playing-surface and turning to reveal a well, above a plain frieze with gadrooned border, on a square spreading shaft with ripple-moulded border and a concave-sided quadrapartite platform with four square tapering downswept legs headed by roundels with foliage scrolled caps and brass castors, one inscribed to the underside in chalk '226/...D' and inside '4/10/' the other inscribed to the underside in chalk '226' and inscribed inside '4/10/7/9'
36¼ in. (92 cm.) wide; 29¼ in. (74 cm.) high; 17¾ in. (45 cm.) deep, closed (2)

Provenance

W.P. Barbour, who lived circa 1977, at Coolmain Castle, Kilbrittain, County Cork, and latterly on the Isle of Man.

Lot Essay

A related pair of beaded rosewood card-tables with quadripartite bases, was sold by The Rt. Hon. Lord Kinnaird and a member of the Kinnaird Family, removed from Rossie Priory, Perthshire, in these Rooms, 6 July 1989, lot 136. A further related card-table was sold by Lord Ivar Mountbatten, Moyns Park, Birdbrook, Essex, in these Rooms, 4 November 1993, lot 204.

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