Card table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1750
Materials
Padouk, mother-of-pearl, baize, brass
Measurements
71 x 84 x 41 cm
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871426
Summary
A padouk and mother-of-pearl inlaid fold-over tea and games table, Chinese Export, mid-18th century. Of demi-lune form and with two hinged folds to the top. The first opening to form a veneered tea table, the second opening to form a playing surface with a baize surface encircled by veneered counter wells and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The frieze inlaid with mother-of-pearl leafy scrolls, and on four turned club supports (one of them a gate to support the tops when open) terminating in pad feet.
Provenance
Date of introduction to Saltram not recorded, but at Saltram by 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877 - 1951), 4th Earl of Morley.
References
C. L. Crossman,The Decorative Arts of the China Trade (1991), p. 236, Plate 87