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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE CARD-TABLES CIRCA 1775 Each hinged crossbanded top with ebony and boxwood chequered stringing enclosing a green baize-lined playing-surface above a conforming frieze centred by carved acanthus and trailing foliage, on chanelled and flowerhead-carved cabriole legs and scroll feet 27 ? in. (70 cm.) high; 39 ? in. (101 cm.) wide; 19 ? in. (49 cm.) deep
The serpentine form of these card tables derives from the pair of tables supplied in 1759 by Thomas Chippendale to William, 5th Earl of Dumfries for Dumfries House, their form dictated by and conforming with the seat furniture supplied at the same time for the drawing room. The elegant shape of the tops, and the sinuous line of the leg was a pattern that was perennially popular, and Chippendale was still making such pieces as late as 1775, for example the tables almost certainly supplied to John Peach Hungerford Esq. (d. 1809) for Dingley Hall, Northamptonshire. Needless-to-say the pattern was copied, altered and refined by many cabinet-makers. A closely related pair is at Fairfax House, York, illustrated in The Noel Terry Collection of Furniture and Clocks, York, 1987, p.114, no. 112.