A REGENCY MAHOGANY CARD-TABLE

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CARD-TABLE
The rounded rectangular hinged top enclosing a baize-lined playing- surface, swivelling to reveal a mahogany-lined well, above a plain frieze, the rounded front corners with turned paterae, on a pair of turned baluster column supports with a rectangular platform, on tapering hipped legs with brass lappeted caps and castors
29 in. (74 cm.) high; 34 in. (87.5 cm.) wide; 17 in. (44 cm.) deep, closed

Lot Essay

The card-table, with paired reed-enriched pillars and Grecian-scrolled 'claw', relates in form to a table illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803; while the cut corners display libation-patterae in the antique fashion popularised around 1815 by George Bullock of Tenterden Street, Hanover Square (see M. Levy, 'Napoleon in Exile', Furniture History, 1998, pp. 1-211).

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