POSSIBLY DUTCH

Details

AN EARLY GEORGIAN GAMES-TABLE
Possibly Dutch
The featherbanded semi-circular hinged top enclosing a well with a removable chequerboard, lined to the reverse with red leather, above an inlaid backgammon board surrounded by six dice wells, the frieze with two walnut-lined drawers, on gate-leg action cabriole legs headed by a stylised flower and on pad feet, restorations and, with depository label underneath inscribed 'FREDK.FISH... DEPOSITORY IPSWICH/ Miss E Cobbold No. 62/19.9.21
30¼ in. (77 cm.) wide; 29¼ in. (74 cm.) high; 14¾ in. (37.5 cm.) deep, closed

Provenance

Miss E. Cobbold.

Lot Essay

The unusual carving of the cabriole knee and the foot, suggest that this may be of Northern European design. However, a similar foot appears on a sofa at Chatsworth, (P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture, The Age of Walnut, London, 1908, p. 207.)

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