A REGENCY PENWORK GAMES TABLE

CIRCA 1805

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A REGENCY PENWORK GAMES TABLE
Circa 1805
The shaped octagonal top decorated with a central checkerboard surrounded by dolphins flanking a scallop shell, on tall scrolled legs on an incurved quadrapartite base with scrolled feet, with a label to the underside inscribed A.H.J. & M.E.Y. from Grammy/Fettercairn 1878 and also later inscribed in pencil C.S.F.T2 & J.G.T & H.T.
29in. (74cm.) high, 16½in. (42cm.) wide, 12½in. (32cm.) deep

来源

Probably Sir William Forbes, 7th Bt., Fettercairn House, Kincardineshire, Scotland.
Thence by descent to his daughter-in-law Lady Harriet Forbes (d.1884). Thence by descent with the house to Miss Kate Somervell, until sold Sotheby's Sussex, 14 September 1999, lot 19.

拍品专文

The games-table, with Grecian-scrolled legs, has its octagonal top scalloped in the manner of a 'loo table' pattern in Thomas Sheraton's, Encyclopaedia, and 1804. Lyric trophies frame its gamesboard and comprise Venus's laurel-wreathed 'shell' badges drawn by dolphins. Patterns for related 'Ornaments for Painting on Wood and Fancy Work' were issued in R. Ackermann's, Repository of Arts, 1817 (see the catalogue of Hyde Park Antiques, Penwork; The Triumph of Line, New York, 1989).

The table formed part of the furnishings of Fettercairn, in Kincardineshire, Scotland, which was reconstructed in the 1820s for Sir William Forbes.