George III Mahogany Concertina-Action Card Table
Circa 1760
The hinged rectangular top with flowerhead and ribbon-carved edge opening to a later green velvet-lined surface above a frieze with rope twist edge and raised blind-fret-carved chamfered square legs headed by pierced brackets; two hinges stamped H TIBATS. Height 29 inches (73.7 cm), width 36 inches (91.5 cm), depth 17 inches (43.2 cm).

The stamp H. Tibats is almost certainly that of Hugh Tibats who is recorded in Pearson and Rollaston's Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Bilston and Willenhall Directory, 1781, as a `hinge and sash fastening maker, Bell St.'. Hinges bearing this stamp are found on a significant group of furniture by leading makers, dating from the mid-18th century including a pair of card tables supplied by Thomas Chippendale for the 5th Earl of Dumfries at Dumfries House, Scotland in 1759; see P. Thornton, 'A Signed Hinge,' The Journal of the Furniture History Society, vol. II, 1966, pp. 44-45.

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Good timber, sunfading and slight bowing to top, later green velvet lining to playing surface, repaired breaks to brackets and one with replacements, old marks and scratches, top later polished but legs with good surface, minor replacements to veneers of frieze.

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