Circa 1805
The rectangular top with drop leaves and central panel sliding open to a leather-lined backgammon board and reversing to an inlaid chessboard, the stepped frieze with two mahogany-lined drawers opposed by false drawers, the X-form legs headed by capitals and joined by a turned stretcher, on casters.
Height 29 inches (73.7 cm), width 37 3/4 inches (95.8 cm), extended width 56 1/2 inches (143.5 cm), depth 22 inches (55.9 cm)
The late Mrs. Robert Tritton, Godmersham Park, Canterbury, Kent, Christie's house sale, June 6-9, 1983, lot 54.
Circa 1805
The rectangular top with drop leaves and central panel sliding open to a leather-lined backgammon board and reversing to an inlaid chessboard, the stepped frieze with two mahogany-lined drawers opposed by false drawers, the X-form legs headed by capitals and joined by a turned stretcher, on casters.
Height 29 inches (73.7 cm), width 37 3/4 inches (95.8 cm), extended width 56 1/2 inches (143.5 cm), depth 22 inches (55.9 cm)
Provenance:The late Mrs. Robert Tritton, Godmersham Park, Canterbury, Kent, Christie's house sale, June 6-9, 1983, lot 54.
English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Previous restorations, later leather to backgammon board, top sunfaded, water stain to panel and now with lifting to veneers, old marks and stretchers, chips and losses to later painted and gilt surfaces, repaired breaks to stretcher and legs.
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Auction: Old Master Paintings / Phipps Collection / Silver / English & Continental Furniture, Jan 29, 2025
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