CIRCA 1740

The high quality of this games table is demonstrated by the fine feather-banding that borders the edge of the baize lining, a feature that might easily be overlooked. The table's general pattern corresponds to another bearing the label of Benjamin Crook, joiner and cabinet-maker of The George & Whyte Lion, St Paul's Churchyard, from c.1732 until 1748, illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700 - 1840, Leeds, 1996, p.169, fig.265. A related table was sold Christie's, London, 26 January 1929, lot 88 (220gns), another was sold Christie's, London, 22 January 2009, lot 85 (£17,500 including premium), and another most recently Christie's, New York, 27 November 2015, the Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a table formerly in the collection of Irwin Untermeyer, lot 62 ($23,750 including premium).