A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND EBONISED CARD-TABLE by John Taylor, the canted rectangular folding top enclosing a green baize-lined playing-surface, the plain frieze with flanking roundels and on pierced quadripartite turned supports and scrolled downswept legs headed by roundels, on brass caps and castors, the underside with printed paper label of J. TAYLOR Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer, APPRAISER & AUCTIONEER No. 27 High Street Colchester, minor repairs to tops of two legs and with fragmentary depository label

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND EBONISED CARD-TABLE by John Taylor, the canted rectangular folding top enclosing a green baize-lined playing-surface, the plain frieze with flanking roundels and on pierced quadripartite turned supports and scrolled downswept legs headed by roundels, on brass caps and castors, the underside with printed paper label of J. TAYLOR Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer, APPRAISER & AUCTIONEER No. 27 High Street Colchester, minor repairs to tops of two legs and with fragmentary depository label
35½in. (90cm.) wide; 28½in. (72cm.) high; 17½in. (44.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

John Taylor is recorded at this address between 1805 and 1839. Several pieces of furniture with this label are recorded in The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1986, p. 877
A chest by Taylor and with a variant of this label but at no. 40 High Street, is lot 65 in this sale.

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