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This is a superb pair of antique George III revival serpentine card tables, circa 1880 in date.
Each card table is of mahogany with beautiful Neoclassical satinwood inlaid marquetry decoration of shells, garland and urns.
Each interior is lined in green baize for playing cards, each bowfront frieze is centred by a delightful inlaid urn, and they are each raised on elegant square tapering legs that terminate with with spade feet.
The back leg on each pulls out to stabilise the card table when it is open and reveals a drawer with a useful space for cards, pencils, paper, etc.
The quality and attention to detail throughout the pair are second to none.
Condition:
In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned and polished in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 79 x Width 92 x Depth 47
Dimensions in inches:
Height 2 feet, 7 inches x Width 3 feet, 0 inches x Depth 1 foot, 6 inches
Our reference: 09827a
Please feel free to email or call us (+44 20 8809 9605) to arrange a viewing in our North London warehouse.
Satinwood
is a hard and durable wood with a satinlike sheen, much used in cabinetmaking, especially in marquetry. It comes from two tropical trees of the family Rutaceae (rue family). East Indian or Ceylon satinwood is the yellowish or dark-brown heartwood of Chloroxylon swietenia.
The lustrous, fine-grained, usually figured wood is used for furniture, cabinetwork, veneers, and backs of brushes. West Indian satinwood, sometimes called yellow wood, is considered superior. It is the golden yellow, lustrous, even-grained wood found in the Florida Keys and the West Indies.
It has long been valued for furniture. It is also used for musical instruments, veneers, and other purposes. Satinwood is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Sapindales, family Rutaceae.
Mahogany
is probably one of the largest ‘families’ of hardwood, having many different varieties within its own species.
Mahogany has been used for centuries in ship building, house building, furniture making etc and is the core structure of just about every 19th century vanity box, dressing case or jewellery box. It became more of a Victorian trend to dress Mahogany with these decorative veneers, such as Rosewood, Kingwood, Burr Walnut and Coromandel, so that the actual Mahogany was almost hidden from view.
Mahogany itself is a rich reddish brown wood that can range from being plain in appearance to something that is so vibrant, figured and almost three dimensional in effect.
Although Mahogany was most often used in its solid form, it also provided some beautifully figured varieties of veneer like ‘Flame’ Mahogany and ‘Fiddleback’ Mahogany (named after its preferred use in the manufacture of fine musical instruments).
Cuban Mahogany was so sought after, that by the late 1850′s, this particular variety became all but extinct.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 79 x Width 92 x Depth 47
Dimensions in inches:
Height 2 feet, 7 inches x Width 3 feet, 0 inches x Depth 1 foot, 6 inches
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