A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND BURR-YEW GAMES-TABLE

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND BURR-YEW GAMES-TABLE
Inlaid overall with boxwood lines, the removable sliding leather-lined top inlaid with a chessboard, the reverse revealing a brown, red and blue leather-lined backgammon well with inlaid ivory circles to the edges, flanked by hinged counter-compartments, above a green baize and silk-lined work-box with square end-supports joined by turned stretchers and downswept feet, previously with patera to the end scrolls, with paper label inscribed '404'
38½ in. (98 cm.) wide, open; 26½ in. (75 cm.) high; 17 in. (43.5 cm.) deep

Sale room notice

29½ in. (75 cm.) high

Lot Essay

An elaborate design for a chessboard above a work-basket and on trestle-end supports joined by a pair of stretchers is illustrated in Thomas Sheraton, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, London, 1802, pl. 67, under the sub-heading 'POUCH TABLES'

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