19TH CENTURY, SINGHALESE

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AN ANGLO-INDIAN EBONY CIRCULAR CENTRE TABLE
19TH CENTURY, SINGHALESE
The circular top centred with an ivory-inlaid rosette and with a border with stylised leaf-tip carving above a waisted and ring-shaped stem continuing to a reeded part raised on four fluted legs ending with scrolling feet
31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 55 in. (140 in.) diameter

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Lot Essay

A card-table with related reeded pillar in Grecian-scrolled 'claw' was sold anonymously, Christie's South Kensington, 12 June 2002, lot 325. Related ivory-enriched furniture manufactured in Ceylon/Sri Lanka is discussed in R. Jones, 'Nineteenth Century Carved Ebony Furniture', Regional Furniture, 1996, pp. 27-39.

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