Details
A Victorian burr-walnut serpentine card table
The shaped triangular hinged top opening to reveal a green baize lined playing surface with circular counter dishes to the corners inset with tooled black leather above a moulded frieze, on cabriole legs headed with acorn leaves, raised on ceramic cartors, stamped four times A.Blain, Liverpool
48½in. (123.5cm.) wide, 30½in. (77.5cm.) high
The shaped triangular hinged top opening to reveal a green baize lined playing surface with circular counter dishes to the corners inset with tooled black leather above a moulded frieze, on cabriole legs headed with acorn leaves, raised on ceramic cartors, stamped four times A.Blain, Liverpool
48½in. (123.5cm.) wide, 30½in. (77.5cm.) high
Literature
Arthur Blain, Liverpool, is recorded as being active from c1835 in The Dictionary of English Furniture Maker's 1660-1840, Maney, 1986, p.78