Gravener Antiques

Description

A fine pair Regency rosewood card tables attributed to George Oakley, the baize lined, rounded rectangular fold over top with crossbanding and frieze with brass molding on sabre supports joined by a central circular boss which performs a scissor-action spread to stabilise, over down swept serpentine legs with brass star and fleur-de-lis detailing and terminating in cast brass acanthus capped castors, 750mm High, 900mm wide and 440mm deep. English. Circa 1820
The Royal Collection Trust retains a pair of similar card tables in The Music Room at Buckingham Palace, each with swivelling top veneered with rosewood in part decorated with carved and gilded ornament and inlaid with brass. The closed top inlaid with a scrolled brass line and at each front corner a fleur-de-lys, on serpentine splayed legs joined by a central undertier. This pattern of card-table is associated with the work of the London cabinet-maker George Oakley. They may have been purchased by Queen Mary.
W J Gravener Antiques is a family owned business, started in 1963 by William who was joined by son, Mark in 1981 and continues today with the same ethos of dealing in fine quality English and Continental furniture, mirrors and decorative objects, from the 18th & 19th centuries. Now under the stewardship of Mark and his wife, Louise, we take pride in maintaining the high standards which William set more than 50 years ago.

W.J.Gravener Antiques are proud members of LAPADA, The London and Provincial Antique Dealers Association.

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