The hinged serpentine top with ribbon-carved edge opening to a leather-lined interior above a fluted frieze on foliate-carved fluted cabriole legs ending in scrolled toes; the back rail with red inked number 10516.

Height 30 in (76.2 cm), width 37 in (93.9 cm), depth 19 in (48.2 cm)

Frank Partridge, Esquire, Salisbury House, Middlesex, England

Frank Partridge, Inc., New York

Purchased from the above, November 1955

Exhibited:

Grosvenor House, Art Treasures Exhibition, Spring, 1951.

Rhode Island School of Design, Chippendale Bicentennial, Exhibition, December 1954.

Literature:

Frank Partridge trade advertisement, The Magazine Antiques, October 1955,

The present table is a copy of a card table formerly at Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire, illustrated in Macquoid and Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, vol. III, p. 200, fig. 29. Attributed to Saunders and Bradshaw, it was sold, Christie's, New York, October 19, 2000, lot 40. A related card table was sold, Christie's, London, November 26, 1986, lot 69.

Late 19th/early 20th century, good quality, age cracks to front and back corners of top, age cracks to center of top and now with patches, shims and inpainting, later leather interior panel cracked at center, perishing to varnish of base, old marks and scratches, scuffs to legs and feet. *Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact and Doyle New York shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. Please contact the specialist department to request further information or additional images that may be available.

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