Chess table

This chess table decorated in tartan would have been made for a relatively wealthy household. It illustrates well the mid-Victorian love of things Scottish applied to a prosaic object.

Games table with an octagonal top on a vase-shaped octagonal column on a scrolled trefoil base on three balled feet, and the whole covered in varnished tartan paper, c. 1850

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• Online ID: 000-100-045-697-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.KNJ 7
• Date: Around 1850
  c. 1850
  
• Material: Wood? with varnished paper
  Table, games
  
• Dimensions: 740 mm H x 480 mm W
  
• What: Table, games
  
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