A Regency gilt bronze mounted rosewood, kingwood and brass line-inlaid games/work table


The reversible sliding top inlaid for chess to the underside, enclosing a backgammon playing surface, flanked by lockable demi-lune hinged galleried ends, 73cm wide x 41cm deep x 75cm high, (28 1/2in wide x 16in deep x 29 1/2in high)
|A similar combination games/work table to the offered lot sold Christie's, London, 12 February 1998, lot 188. Also a related zebrawood table, dated circa 1800, appears illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, 1795-1830, 1949, Glasgow, p. 118, fig. 119. This latter example apparently formerly belonged to a Mrs Stileman.