The royal billiard table is up for sale at Harrods! This masterpiece was comissioned for Queen Victoria’s Jubileee Exhibition in Manchester in 1887. Unique black walnut billiard table was created by Orne & Sons Ltd. It is beautifully decorated with ribbons of quotations from Shakespeare, Tennyson, Scott and Byron. There are two long and six short panels depicting numerous countries beneath the friezes.
Between the panels and above each leg are portraits including William of Normandy, Henry I, Henry II, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, Edward II, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, James I and Charles I. The central horizontal section features Victoria and Albert beside Windsor Castle and the lower section depicts the royal residences of Holyrood and Caernavon. The second section slides open to expose a game with stars and colored counters, which can be rotated to form a scoreboard Queen’s Jubilee Billiard Table is priced at ÂŁ1,000,000.
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