A PAIR OF GEORGE IV BRASS-MOUNTED KINGWOOD PEDESTAL CARD-TABLES

The use of kingwood laid in strips across the tops of these tables is seen on high quality cabinet-work of the early 19th century, such as on a related Regency kingwood sofa table, sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 14 June 2001, lot 126.

The pier card-tables, with their paired pillars on 'altar' plinths with Grecian-scrolled 'claws', relate to a pattern adopted around 1810 by the St. Paul's Churchyard cabinet-maker George Simson (d. circa 1840) (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, fig. 865).