None more so than an inlaid yew wood marquetry foldover games table. Estimated at £3000-4000, it was of sufficiently high quality to entice the Irish trade, with the successful bidder a Killarney dealer who had travelled to Chichester specially for the table – he won it at £3500.
Another piece of in-demand furniture among the 940-lot sale was a Georgian mahogany serpentine side table. Its legs had been foreshortened but its rich dark brown patina helped it bring £2200 from an English dealer.
Stride & Son, Chichester,
February 23
Buyer’s premium: 15 per cent
Winning games table
UK: THE Sussex sale was dominated by the £98,000 bid for L.S. Lowry’s oil on plywood Old Houses (Art Market, Antiques Trade Gazette No. 1479, March 10) but this record bid for the rooms was backed up by a number of pieces of good-quality furniture which saw competitive bidding.
