A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CONCERTINA-ACTION GAMES TABLE

CIRCA 1755

细节

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CONCERTINA-ACTION GAMES TABLE
Circa 1755
The serpentine flip-top opening with concertina action to a tan felt-lined playing surface and with a ribbon-wrapped rosette edge with punched background, the underside with a pull-out slide with a counter chips box, the apron with blind Gothic fretwork carved to all surfaces on squared legs pierced with lunette lozenges and with blind Gothic tracery, on short block feet, traces of parcel oil gilding to carved details
28½in. (72.5cm.) high, 35in. (89cm.) wide, 17¼in. (43cm.) deep

拍品专文

This elaborately carved games table with its pierced fretwork legs and gothic style frieze relates to patterns in Thomas Chippendale's Director (1756-1762) but most closely corresponds to a design in The Universal System of Household Furniture published by cabinet-makers William Ince and John Mayhew in 1762, plate LII. A similar table is illustrated in A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, New York, 1968, pl.241.