Holland & Sons Burled Walnut Louis XVI style Game Table with mechanical cage legs. Folds up to create a demi-table and unfolds to create a full game table with felted top. Sliding tray underneath to hold game pieces. Inscribed/Stamped "Holland & Sons" on top of main stretcher arm. Very ornate with gilt ormolu metal trim. This is not an "attributed to" table as most of them on the market are. This is an authentic marked Holland & Sons piece which came from a royal castle in England. Originally founded in 1803 by Stephen Taprell and William Holland, a relation of the architect Henry Holland, the firm of Holland & Sons soon became one of the largest and most successful furniture making companies in the 19th Century. The firm worked extensively for the Royal Family, being granted the Royal Warrant early in the reign of Queen Victoria, hence taking a leading part in the decoration and furnishing of Osborne House, Sandringham, Balmoral, Windsor Castle and the apartments of the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. Holland and Sons also worked extensively for the British Government, for whom they executed over three hundred separate commissions, including the Palace of Westminster, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and oversaw the State funeral of the Duke of Wellington. Among their private commissions the firm produced a celebrated suite of bedroom furniture for the late Sir Harold Wernher at Luton Hoo. Always at the forefront of fashion, Holland & Sons employed some of England’s leading designers and participated in all of the International Exhibitions of 1851, 1855, 1862, 1867, 1872 and 1878.

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