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CIRCA 1780
Details
A Louis XVI brass-mounted mahogany games table
CIRCA 1780
The gilt-tooled brown leather-lined moulded top with green baizé lining to the reverse enclosing a backgammon well, inlaid with ebony and bone, above a blind and a working frieze-drawer to each side, on fluted tapering circular feet with caps and castors, with old inventory label, numbered 285, with fifteen ivory stones and 18 mother-of-pearl chips, re-mounted
75 cm. high x 100 cm. wide x 59cm. deep
CIRCA 1780
The gilt-tooled brown leather-lined moulded top with green baizé lining to the reverse enclosing a backgammon well, inlaid with ebony and bone, above a blind and a working frieze-drawer to each side, on fluted tapering circular feet with caps and castors, with old inventory label, numbered 285, with fifteen ivory stones and 18 mother-of-pearl chips, re-mounted
75 cm. high x 100 cm. wide x 59cm. deep
Provenance
Princess Simone zu Lippe-Biesterfeld.
And thence by descent.
And thence by descent.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve and will be sold to the highest bidder.
Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.
Sale room notice
Please note that the backgammon well is inlaid in bone and not in ivory as stated in the printed catalogue.