Lot Essay
A very closely related jewelled-paste-mounted games-table of the same model was sold in these Rooms, 5 April 2001, lot 216 (£24,675).
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19TH CENTURY
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AN ANGLO-INDIAN IVORY AND PEWTER-INLAID GAMES TABLE
19th Century
The octagonal sadeli-mosaic banded top centred by a chess-board surrounded by four smaller rectangular games panels, the inlaid frieze with four drawers, one with hinged writing surface and fitted with compartments, another with various-sized and inlaid lidded compartments, with metal finial-shaped pendants under the top and on a spreading octagonal shaft and concave-sided quadripartite base and paw feet marked 'BEADMORE' and 'LOND...', losses to the ivory and metal inlay
23½ in. (60 cm.) diam.; 29½ in. (75 cm.) high
19th Century
The octagonal sadeli-mosaic banded top centred by a chess-board surrounded by four smaller rectangular games panels, the inlaid frieze with four drawers, one with hinged writing surface and fitted with compartments, another with various-sized and inlaid lidded compartments, with metal finial-shaped pendants under the top and on a spreading octagonal shaft and concave-sided quadripartite base and paw feet marked 'BEADMORE' and 'LOND...', losses to the ivory and metal inlay
23½ in. (60 cm.) diam.; 29½ in. (75 cm.) high
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