Title
Game Table
Object Type
Date
early 18th Century
Description
A Regence ormolu mounted ebonized game table with an inset leather lined top which reverses for a chess board with white ivory squares and covers a veneered backgammon well. Each end has a drawer and a spring to release table top. On cabriole legs headed by a cast satyr mask chute and foliate cast scrolling sabots.
Medium
wood, bronze, gilt, ivory
Extent
Overall: 29 1/2 x 26 x 34 in. (74.9 x 66 x 86.4 cm)
Collection
Source
Purchased by Doris Duke at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, November 24, 1956, Sale 1713, lot 130
Identifier
1999.129
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