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A Regency rosewood, simulated rosewood and brass-inlaid card table
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A Regency rosewood, simulated rosewood and brass-inlaid card table

CIRCA 1820

细节
A Regency rosewood, simulated rosewood and brass-inlaid card table
Circa 1820
The swivel-folding top on a U-shaped support with a later barrel column, on splayed legs, the top split, the barrel support possibly later, with a later paper property label for Princess Margaret
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 37.14 in. (94 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep
注意事项
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

The drawing room pier-table, with baize card-table surface concealed beneath the hinged and turning top, is designed in the early l9th century Grecian fashion and reflects Louis Quatorze elegance with golden palm-flowered 'boulle' tablets enriching its 'Grecian' black-figured rosewood veneer. Lyric-poetry's triumph is evoked by its flowered and 'Grecian-lyre' scrolled pillar, which is wreathed with the poetry-deity Apollo's laurels and raised on an 'altar' plinth with Grecian-scrolled 'claw'. Its character relates to that of a 'Ladies' Work Table' by the Strand cabinet-makers Messrs Morgan and Saunders, which was illustrated alongside a 'lyre' embellished 'Sofa Writing Table', in R. Ackermann's, The Repository of Arts, 1811.