Game Table, Port Furniture, Nantes XVIIIth Century

Louis XV game table in solid mahogany, the top of a single, removable board is inlaid on one side of maple squares to simulate a chessboard. It is surrounded by a molding with double rolls. The interior of the table is inlaid with a game of backgammon. It opens with two small side drawers, the molded and scalloped crosspieces are connected by a curved and molded base which ends in a volute foot. Two slides of a drawer replaced, a dozen chips with the table. Beautiful 18th century Nantes port work Bibliography: The Port furniture, Louis Malfoy, the amateur editions The Port Rochelais furniture, Florence and Dominique Chaussat, Etre et Connaître editions