Lot 46
46
A MID-VICTORIAN EBONY AND IVORY GAMES-TABLE with hinged chamfered moulded square top with an ebony border inset with a printed and pencil-drawn chequer-board with alternating historical portrait busts and antique figures, with capriccio of classical ruins and Arcadian landscapes to the sides, divided at the corners by the four figures representing music, painting, architecture and literature, above a arcaded frieze, on spirally-twisted supports resting upon a concave-fronted platform base, on acanthus-enriched scrolled cabriole feet and casters

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A MID-VICTORIAN EBONY AND IVORY GAMES-TABLE with hinged chamfered moulded square top with an ebony border inset with a printed and pencil-drawn chequer-board with alternating historical portrait busts and antique figures, with capriccio of classical ruins and Arcadian landscapes to the sides, divided at the corners by the four figures representing music, painting, architecture and literature, above a arcaded frieze, on spirally-twisted supports resting upon a concave-fronted platform base, on acanthus-enriched scrolled cabriole feet and casters
25½in. (65cm.) square; 29in. (74cm.) high

Lot Essay

Designed in the William IV 'Elizabethan' style with its salomonic columnar supports and ebony veneer, the top of this table displays a chessboard with portraits of poets alternating with ... within a border of picturesque landscapes. Such items were manufactured by Anthony Sandoe, Fancy Stationer and Cabinet-Maker of Southampton Row, Russell Square in the 1830s (see: Dictionary of English Furniture-Makers, Leeds, 1986, p. 780)

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