A GEORGE I WALNUT CONCERTINA-ACTION CARD-TABLE
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A GEORGE I WALNUT CONCERTINA-ACTION CARD-TABLE

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A GEORGE I WALNUT CONCERTINA-ACTION CARD-TABLE
Featherbanded overall, the rounded eared rectangular top enclosing a green baize-lined playing-surface with featherbanded counter-wells and candle-stands, above a frieze drawer with shaped apron, on cabriole legs headed by shells and with claw feet, the internal drawer supports replaced
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 34 in. (86.5 cm.) wide; 16½ in. (42 cm.) deep
Provenance
Herbert Rothbarth, Esq., (+) Checkendon Court, Reading, Berkshire, sold in these Rooms, 26 May 1960, lot 65 (620 gns. to Williams).
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Lot Essay

This table is closely related to another walnut card-table by Benjamin Crook of St. Paul's Church Yard, sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 15 April 1999, lot 107. Another similar card-table, previously in the collection of the famous collector, R.W. Symonds, was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 12 March 1983, lot 183.
Herbert Rothbarth's important collection of 18th Century English furniture was sold in these Rooms, 26 May 1960. The collection included a set of four Queen Anne chairs from Glemham Hall, Suffolk (illustrated in P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture, The Age of Walnut, London, 1908, p. 203, fig. 187), a mahogany wirting-cabinet by Thomas Chippendale (illustrated in R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, rev. ed., 1955, p. 185, fig. 125) and a small walnut and lacquer bureau-cabinet by Hugh Granger from the Percival Griffiths Collection (illustrated ibid, pls. 210 and 211).

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