A BIEDERMEIER EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT AND CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER TRIPLE-FLAP GAMES-TABLE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE LACQUER TOP MID-18TH CENTURY

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A BIEDERMEIER EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT AND CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER TRIPLE-FLAP GAMES-TABLE
Early 19th Century, the lacquer top mid-18th Century
The shaped twin-flap top with a basket of flowers and two birds, enclosing a playing-surface with a Chinese landscape with cartouches of landscapes and animals in greenery within a trellis border with animal-decorated wells, and further playing-surface with a chequer board within foliate scrolls and a trellis-border, the stand with shaped apron on sabre legs headed by goat's heads and terminating in goats' hoofs, bearing label to inside of frieze inscribed 'VEREIN ZUR ERHALTUNG DES SCHLOSSESS JEGENSTORF 1860'
30 in. (76.5 cm.) high; 31 in. (79 cm.) wide; 15½ in. (39.5 cm.) deep, closed

来源

Possibly the von Strler family, Castle Jegensdorf near Bern, Switzerland.

拍品专文

The foundation referred to on the label to the underside of the games-table was established to preserve Castle Jegensdorf in 1936.

This mid-18th Century Chinese lacquer games-table top relates to a pair supplied to Gustaf III of Sweden for the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm Palace, although these latter tables have an earlier type of gate-leg support (A. Setterwall, S. Fogelmark and B. Gyllensvärd, The Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm, Malmö, 1974, pp. 129 and 151). A further pair on early 18th Century English black and gilt-japanned supports is in the Cabinet Room at Houghton Hall (Houghton Hall, Catalogue, Stoke-on-Trent, 1976, p. 8).