CIRCA 1840

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AN ANGLO-INDIAN CARVED EBONY AND INLAID IVORY GAMES TABLE
CIRCA 1840
The inlaid top with a ratchet easel support, supported on a reeded and lotus-leaf wrapped baluster shaft on four acanthus capped scroll legs
28¼in (71.8cm.) high; 21in. (53.3cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Stylistic similarities can be compared with pieces of furniture carved in Ceylon, also employing decorative motifs such as the lotus-leaf and the patera among others, copied from contemporary British patterns. See fig. 181, page 372, Amin Jaffer, Furniture From British India and Ceylon, V.& A. Pulications, London, 2001.

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