A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, EBONY AND MARQUETRY CARD-TABLE

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 178-179)

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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, EBONY AND MARQUETRY CARD-TABLE
The hinged top crossbanded in mahogany and with a foliage-inlaid edge on an ebony ground, with a scene of a two female charioteers inlaid in a demi-lune to the rear edge, enclosing a blue baize-lined playing-surface, above a plain panelled frieze, on urn-headed square tapering legs and spade feet
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide; 17¾ in. (45 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The table is decorated in the George III 'antique' or 'Etruscan' manner with Grecian-urn tablets and a lunette with a chariot scene. The latter, associated with the History of Hercules and the Garden of the Hesperides, derives from Sir William Hamilton's 'Meidias Hydria' or water-jar illustrated in Pierre François Hugues d'Hancarville, Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Naples, 1766/67 (I. Jenkins & K. Sloan, Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and His Collection, London, 1996, no. 55, p. 180).

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