EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Details

A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD CARD TABLE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The D-shaped hinged top enclosing a green baize-lined surface, above a panelled frieze with lion mask-mounted blocks on sabre legs with simulated bronze lion paw feet
29 ½ in. (75 cm.) high; 39 in. (100 cm.) wide; 18 ¼ in. (46.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 22 January 2009, lot 69.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The scroll-cornered top of this Drawing Room window-pier table, is designed in the 1800 French/antique fashion and conceals a baize-lined interior, while its 'Grecian' ribboned border of black-figured rosewood is inlaid with golden 'boulle' fillets. Golden Egyptian reeds frame the fine-figured veneer, which is sunk in the frieze tablet between festive Bacchic tablets. These golden tablets bear antique 'bronze' lion-head reliefs above elegantly scrolled legs, that are herm-tapered, reed-enriched and terminate in 'bronze' monopodiae.
A pair of rosewood card tables of similar design were sold anonymously, Bonhams, London, 20 November 2007, lot 158 (£20,400). A single table, possibly the pair to the present lot, was sold anonymously 19 November 2009, lot 14 (£30,000 including premium).

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