A pair of card tables ‘in the manner of Ince & Mayhew’ – £36,000 at Strides.
Latest in a number of outstanding pieces of English furniture to surface and succeed at provincial auctions was this pair of satinwood inlaid demi-lune card tables, above, offered at Strides (20% buyer’s premium inc. VAT) at Chichester on March 31.
The estimate was £800-1200 and the catalogue notes described them as George III with later additions. There was a 19th century fashion for making pairs of tables such as this into a single centre table – work that was later undone when the pair came back into vogue. Here it appears the legs, with a double gate leg action, were later additions. However, the pair was very much in the manner of Ince & Mayhew whose Soho workshops flourished between 1783 and 1809.
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