A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND KINGWOOD CROSSBANDED 'GOTHICK' DOUBLE-GATELEG CARD TABLES

CIRCA 1795

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND KINGWOOD CROSSBANDED 'GOTHICK' DOUBLE-GATELEG CARD TABLES
CIRCA 1795
Each with a D-shaped top enclosing a brown leather-lined surface, above an arcaded frieze carved with trefoils enclosing pendant bell-flowers and acanthus, on cluster column legs with acanthus capitals and spade feet, the reverse of one with a Ginsburg & Levy paper trade label and both with a stencilled numbered to the underside 8818205 and 32847 pair
28½ in. (72 cm.) high, 43 in. (109 cm.) wide, 19 in. (48 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

With H. Blairman & Sons, Ltd., London.
With Ginsburg & Levy, New York.
Benjamin Ginsburg, Antiquary; Christie's, New York, 29 October 1983, lot 220.
Acquired from Carlton Hobbs, New York.

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Lot Essay

These distinctive card tables reflect the renewed fashion for the Gothic taste at the end of the 18th century, which was promoted by the court architect James Wyatt (1746-1813), among others. Wyatt's design for a pulpit at Litchfield Cathedral from 1783 illustrates a similarly refined interpretation of gothic tracery arches and cluster-column legs.

A side table of this pattern, certainly by the same maker and possible en suite, was sold The Property of a Company, Christie's, London, 29 March 1984, lot 188 (illustrated in G. Beard and J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Oxford, 1987, p. 249, fig. 4). The table was with Partridge, London by 1905 and illustrated in F. S. Robinson, English Furniture, London, 1905, pl. CI.

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