CIRCA 1840, AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS KING

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A CEYLONESE EBONY AND SPECIMEN WOOD HEXAGONAL OCCASIONAL TABLE
CIRCA 1840, AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS KING
The hinged top enclosing a compartmented interior with pin-cushions, the top inlaid with pewter stringing within ivory, ebony and rosewood chequer banding, centred by a specimen wood patera including ivory, calamander, palmwood, tamarind-wood and various rosewoods
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 21 in. (53 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This design is shown in Thomas King's Modern Style of Cabinet Work Exemplified, London, 1829, plate 87. See also very similar examples in ebony illustrated in Amin Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 2001, pp. 372-373.

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