拍品 111
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY GAMES TABLE, inlaid overall with boxwood and ebonised lines, the sliding reversable featherbanded top lined with a chess board and trellis-pattern leather enclosing a red leather-lined interior fitted for backgammon, with one short frieze drawer and one simulated drawer to each side, on square tapering legs headed by later pierced angles and on brass caps

細節
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY GAMES TABLE, inlaid overall with boxwood and ebonised lines, the sliding reversable featherbanded top lined with a chess board and trellis-pattern leather enclosing a red leather-lined interior fitted for backgammon, with one short frieze drawer and one simulated drawer to each side, on square tapering legs headed by later pierced angles and on brass caps
40¾in. (103.5cm.) wide; 28½in. (72.5cm.) high; 24½in. (62cm.) deep

拍品專文

This elegant bureau-plat with its delicate fillet banding, concealed chessboard inlaid on the reverse of its sliding top, and drawers for chess and backgammon men flanking a backgammon-board well, is the prototype for the type of 'backgammon work table' illustrated in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808, pl. 78