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A GEORGE IV BURR-ELM, ELM, EBONISED AND MARQUETRY CARD-TABLE

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A GEORGE IV BURR-ELM, ELM, EBONISED AND MARQUETRY CARD-TABLE
The hinged rectangular swivel top crossbanded in ash and inlaid with ebony lines, the border with stylised foliage above a well, the frieze with a bobbin-turned band, on a pinched rectangular support and concave-sided quadrapartite plinth with four hipped square tapering legs, brass foliate caps and castors
36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76 cm.) high; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep, closed

Lot Essay

A pair of card-tables of this pattern, but with truss supports rather than hollowed pedestal, are likely to have formed part of the furniture introduced to Stratfield Saye, Hampshire around 1820 by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (d.1852) (M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, London, rev.ed., 1965, p. 72, fig. 158).

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