Live Auction 7821The Barratt Collection - from Crowe Hall, Bath
A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND SATINWOOD DEMI-LUNE CARD TABLES
Lot 308

A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND SATINWOOD DEMI-LUNE CARD TABLES

IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE THE YOUNGER, CIRCA 1790

Closed16 December 2010

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GBP 10,000

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND SATINWOOD DEMI-LUNE CARD TABLES
IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE THE YOUNGER, CIRCA 1790
Each with a hinged top crossbanded in kingwood and enclosing a later green-baize lined surface resting on hinged gateleg, the interior edges banded in amaranth and strung in boxwood above a satinwood panelled frieze with ebony borders, the square tapering amaranth panelled legs terminating in spade feet, each with the gateleg action replaced
29¼ in. (74 cm.) high; 38 in. (96.5 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep (2)

Specialist note

With their 'Etruscan' colouring of golden East Indian satinwood and 'black' ebony borders, these card tables recall the demi-lune commodes at Newby Hall, Yorkshire, which may well have been supplied by Thomas Chippendale the Younger.