Lot 144
144
A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD GAMES-TABLE, the hinged square top sliding to reveal a backgammon board and flanked by two D-shaped end-sections each with hinged lid with pierced gallery, one with fitted interior with chessboard, on lyre-shaped end-supports and stepped rectangular undertier, on downswept legs and paw feet, formerly with work-basket, restorations, and new central sections to end-supports and to one leg, the undertier with later base

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD GAMES-TABLE, the hinged square top sliding to reveal a backgammon board and flanked by two D-shaped end-sections each with hinged lid with pierced gallery, one with fitted interior with chessboard, on lyre-shaped end-supports and stepped rectangular undertier, on downswept legs and paw feet, formerly with work-basket, restorations, and new central sections to end-supports and to one leg, the undertier with later base
28½in. (72cm.) wide; 29½in. (75cm.) high; 16½in. (42cm.) deep

Lot Essay

An almost identical table, but in calamander, is illustrated in P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1954, rev. edn., vol. III, p. 323, fig. 11

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