Antique Tables : Work Table, Games Table

Antique games table

Fine and rare Regency pedestal games table. The ebony and sycamore sliding top, with foliate marquetry banding, revealing a leather backgammon board. The inlaid frieze with reeded geometric panels and two drawers. Raised on a turned pedestal with moulded and hipped splay legs, with decorative brass castors.

Circa. 1820

This table comes with letters which record the following provenance: Elizabeth Frances Oates, by whom given to [her god daughter] Jane Frances Bennet (1798-1873) of Rougham, Suffolk on her marriage to the Rev Samuel Hurry Alderson (1787-1863) in 1821 (according to the a.l.s., Bury St Edmunds Decr 3rd [1811]) thence by descent to Mrs Alderson's grand-daughter, Ethel Tufnell of Wormington Hall, Essex (according to an a.l.s., Penrith, Cumberland, nd [1944 or 5] to the then owner Mrs Courtauld)

Height:

28.5" (72cm)

Width:

20" (51cm)

Depth:

20" (51cm)

Material: Mahogany | Marquetry
Period: 19th century furniture | Regency furniture

Stock no: 5510

£2,850

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