Backgammon and Chess Table

by THE VIVIEN LEIGH COLLECTION
. REF: 14369

About the furniture

Backgammon and Chess Table after a design by John McLean

19th Century

Pull-out top with inlaid chess board to one side ovewr a tooled leather interior playing surface.  Brass, parcel-filt, boxwood stringing, rosewood, satinwood and leather.

Made circa 1810

 

Provenance:

L. Loewenthal, London, 'Antique inlaid rosewood games table with brass gallery and mounts' 1950 (Laurence Olivier Archive, The British Library, London, MS 79840)

Underside metal label branded 'Barber / Dealer of Antique Furniture / Windsor' and a paper label stamped 'Sir L. Olivier'

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