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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND CROSSBANDED GAMES-TABLE
Lot 201 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND CROSSBANDED GAMES-TABLE

POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810

Closed23 May 2012

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND CROSSBANDED GAMES-TABLE
POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS, CIRCA 1810
Line-inlaid throughout, the rounded rectangular twin-flap top with a central sliding panel, inlaid to the reverse with a chequerboard and with a gilt-tooled brown leather backgammon well, above an ivory-handled frieze drawer on square tapering legs with brass caps and castors
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 29½ in. (75 cm.) wide; 21½ in. (54 cm.) deep

The Boothman Smallwood Collection, sold Christie's, London, 26 April 1989, lot 80.

Specialist note

A closely related games table supplied by George and Richard Gillow is illustrated in R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers 1780-1800, London, 1955, p.222, fig.196.