IN THE MANNER OF GEORGE OAKLEY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND BRASS-INLAID CARD-TABLE
IN THE MANNER OF GEORGE OAKLEY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The hinged rectangular canted top with inlaid-brass foliate-patterned edge, enclosing a green baize playing-surface, on squared cabriole legs, with brass paw feet, losses to brass inlay
29. 1/4 in. (74 cm.) high (closed); 36¼ in. (92 cm.) wide; 35 in. (90 cm.) deep, open; 17½ in. (45 cm.) deep, closed

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Lot Essay

The table is designed in the early 19th century French antique fashion, with Grecian-scrolled pillars terminating in Bacchic lion-paws, while its rectangular and cut-cornered top is wreathed by Louis Quatorze 'boulle' ribbons mosaiced in black and gold chevrons in a manner associated with the St. Pauls Churchyard cabinet-maker George Oakley (d. 1840), who was noted in the 1801 Journal de Luxus und der Moden (Weimar) as being 'the most tasteful of the London cabinet makers' (M. Jourdain and R. Edwards, Georgian Cabinet Makers, London, 1944, p. 74).

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