A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD CARD-TABLES

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A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD CARD-TABLES
Each with rounded rectangular crossbanded folding top inlaid with scrolling foliage and flowerheads at the corners enclosing a green baize-lined playing-surface, on an open demi-lune support and concave-sided rectangular plinth, outscrolled legs, brass caps and castors, restorations
28 in. (71 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep (2)

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Lot Essay

An almost identical pair of card-tables was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 21 September 1995, lot 95 (£12,650 inc. premium). Another related sofa table, now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, is illustrated O. Brackett, An Encyclopeadia of English Furniture, 1927, p. 290.

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