Fine Pair Regency Rosewood Card Tables Attributed to George Oakley

A fine pair of early 19th Century (c.1820) English Regency antique rosewood card tables attributed to George Oakley, the baize lined, rounded rectangular fold over top with crossbanding and frieze with brass moulding 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. 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 under-tier. 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.