Live Auction 16216A London Season: Works Of Art From A Private Collection in Eaton Square
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CONCERTINA-ACTION CARD TABLE
Lot 100

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CONCERTINA-ACTION CARD TABLE

CIRCA 1765

Closed21 November 2018

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GBP 1,500

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CONCERTINA-ACTION CARD TABLE
CIRCA 1765
The hinged fold-over serpentine top enclosing a green baize-lined interior, with entrelac and rosette moulding, on blind fret-carved chamfered legs headed by brackets, with batten carrying-holes
28 ½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 33 ½ in. (85 cm.) wide; 17 ¼ in. (44 cm.) deep

Specialist note

The carved blind fretwork on this card table can be compared to both pierced and blind carving that appears on an elaborate suite of furniture, almost certainly supplied to George Weller-Poley Esq. for Boxsted Hall, Sufolk; sold by the Trustees of the J.H. Weller-Poley Will Trust, Christie's, London 3 July 1997, lots 20-23. The pair of card-tables from the suite (lot 23) was sold for £38,900 including premium. Such 'Gothick' fretwork designs featured on chair-patterns in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, pl. XXI.