May 20, 2025 10:00 EST

Old Master Paintings / English & Continental Silver, Furniture and Decorative Arts

 
 

Regency Ormolu-Mounted, Brass Inlaid, Parcel-Gilt and Rosewood Games Table

Circa 1810

The sliding ratcheted rectangular top opening to a well fitted with a tooled leather backgammon playing surface, flanked by two outset ormolu-molded galleried sections over short and two false drawers, the leaf-tipped panel frieze above a checkerboard playing surface and long lower drawer, on trestle supports joined by a double-scrolled arched stretcher, on splayed legs and brass paw feet on casters.

Height 29¾ inches (75.5 cm), width 40 inches (101.5 cm), depth 20¾ inches (52.5 cm).

Provenance:

Anonymous sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, May 15, 1976, lot 177.
Acquired from Devenish & Co., Inc., New York in 1978.
Acquired from Christie's New York, Property from the Estate of Doris Merril Magowan, May 22, 2022, lot 215.

Estimate
$4,000 - $6,000
 

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Circa 1810

The sliding ratcheted rectangular top opening to a well fitted with a tooled leather backgammon playing surface, flanked by two outset ormolu-molded galleried sections over short and two false drawers, the leaf-tipped panel frieze above a checkerboard playing surface and long lower drawer, on trestle supports joined by a double-scrolled arched stretcher, on splayed legs and brass paw feet on casters.

Height 29¾ inches (75.5 cm), width 40 inches (101.5 cm), depth 20¾ inches (52.5 cm).

Provenance:

Anonymous sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, May 15, 1976, lot 177.
Acquired from Devenish & Co., Inc., New York in 1978.
Acquired from Christie's New York, Property from the Estate of Doris Merril Magowan, May 22, 2022, lot 215.

English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts

   

With previous restorations, sunfading, center of top with age cracks, shrinkage cracks, some rippling to veneer, scratches to leather playing surface, minuscule traces of inactive worm underneath, old marks and scratches, scuffs to feet.

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