A GEORGE II MAHOGANY AND PARQUETRY CONCERTINA-ACTION CARD-TABLE

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY AND PARQUETRY CONCERTINA-ACTION CARD-TABLE
IN THE MANNER OF BENJAMIN GOODISON

The rectangular folding top with moulded ribbon-and-rosette edge and Greek-key banding, enclosing a green baize-lined playing-surface with shallow counter-wells and baize-lined candle-stands, the panelled frieze inlaid with key pattern and on club legs headed by acanthus clasps and angles and on scroll feet, splits to top
36¾in. (93cm.) wide; 28¾in. (73cm.) high; 18½in. (47cm.) deep

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The golden band of Grecian ribbon-fret that is inlaid into the table-top also features on a pair of card-tables supplied in 1757 by the court cabinet-maker Benjamin Goodison for Holkham Hall, Norfolk (A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 371). The pattern for the crenellated Grecian fret that embellishes the frieze was published in Edward Hoppus' Gentleman and Builder's Repository, 1737, pl. LVIII

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