A PAIR OF REGENCY CALAMANDER CARD-TABLES
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A PAIR OF REGENCY CALAMANDER CARD-TABLES

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A PAIR OF REGENCY CALAMANDER CARD-TABLES
Each with rounded rectangular swivelling top with burr-yew banded edge, enclosing a green baize-lined playing-surface above a mahogany-lined well and a frieze inlaid with boxwood lines, on four shaped supports and a rectangular plinth, on hipped cabriole legs with brass paw caps and castors, with paper label to the underside of one inscribed 'Mills' and with chalk inscription 'Mrs Gibbs marks' and with pencil inscription '2347 Gilbert' (???)
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 35½ in. (90 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Mills.
Mrs Gibbs
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Lot Essay

A pair of related calamander card-tables of this form, was sold from the Schieszler collection, Christie's New York, 21 October 1999, lot 117 ($32,200). The latter pair was given to the Regency cabinet-maker George Oakley (d. 1840) as they were possibly supplied to Charles Madryll Cheere for Papworth Hall, Cambridgeshire, circa 1810. Oakley is recorded as supplying a large quantity of furnishings for Papworth Hall from 1809. A games-table of virtually identical form is illustrated in R. Edwards, ed., The Dictionary of English Furniture, Woodsbridge, 1954, vol. III, p. 202, fig. 42.

Another similar pair of calamander card-tables was sold anonymously, Sotheby's New York, 1 February 1992, lot 215 ($13,200).

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