Lot 388
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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD, AMBOYNA, BRONZE AND PARCEL-GILT OCCASIONAL GAMES TABLE
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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD, AMBOYNA, BRONZE AND PARCEL-GILT OCCASIONAL GAMES TABLE

AFTER GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD, AMBOYNA, BRONZE AND PARCEL-GILT OCCASIONAL GAMES TABLE
AFTER GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810
The rectangular leather-lined top with a sliding central panel inlaid to reverse with chess and cribbage board and enclosing a well for backgammon with hingerd flaps with brass galleries, on moulded lyre- shaped supports with a fluted stretcher on lion paw feet, with a storage label inscribed 'FANE'
29 in. (75 cm.) high; 39¾ in. (101 cm.) wide open; 21¾ in. (53 cm.) wide closed; 16¾ in. (43 cm.) deep
Provenance
John Fane, Wormsley Park, Oxfordshire, sold Dreweatts, Berkshire, 26 November 2009, lot 152.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The present lot relates to the sofa tables and games-tables popularised by Gillows around 1810 - 20. These often features sliding games boards which concealed a well fitted for backgammon, and with rounded ends, often hinged as in the present case. Gillows supplied two rosewood sofa tables of related design in 1813 to John Gladstone, one of which featured the backgammon board, and the fashionable shape of the top was exploited elsewhere in the case of a rosewood table with brass gallery, fixed, rather than hinged ends, and spindle supports (Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840, Woodbridge, 2008, pp.265-267, pl.270 and 272, and p.301, pl.329).

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