SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE II WALNUT CARD-TABLE
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Cross and featherbanded overall, the eared rectangular top enclosing a brown leather-lined playing-surface, on shell-headed cabriole legs with scroll-carved ears, on claw-and-ball feet, the back-left leg later, one leg spliced, one ear original, the top flap reveenered
27½ in. (70 cm.) high; 35½ in. (90 cm.) wide; 17¼ in. (44 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This pier/card-table is designed in the George II Roman fashion with columnar or compass-tablet corners and trussed legs enriched with Venus-shell badges and terminating in Jupiter eagle-claws . Such tables would have been designed en suite with parlour chairs, such as those with compass fronts and 'vase' splats, formerly in Lord Vernon's collection (sold Christie's London, 26 May 1960, lot 22). A similar table bears the label of the St. Paul's Church Yard cabinet-maker, Benjamin Crook (fl. 1732-1748) (C. Gilbert , Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, fig. 265).

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