Description
A Regency Painted Black & White Chess Table with intricate pen-worked ornamentation. The break D-ended top having a chequer border to the centre between demi-lune panels adorned with urns cascading flowers, framed by a border of undulating foliage, flowers and fruit. The turned centre pedestal elaborately decorated with wild flowers leading down to a quadriform platform on scroll crested legs with ball feet, incorporating a crowned motto banner inscribed; ‘PRO DEO ET REGE’ (for God & King) 29½” (75 cm) high, 28” (71 cm) long, 17¾” (45 cm) wide.*