A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST-ON-CHEST

Details
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST-ON-CHEST
LATE 18TH CENTURY

With broken triangular pediment and dentil-moulded frieze above two short drawers and three long drawers flanked by fluted angles, the base with a brushing slide above three further drawers, on bracket feet
81in. (206cm.) high, 45in. (115.5cm.) wide, 22in. (56cm.) deep
Literature
J. Pope-Hennessy, Learning to Look, New York or London, 1991, p. 313

My bedroom faces east...on the left wall is a tallboy I have known all my life. It is a not very distinguished piece of late-eighteenth or early-nineteenth century English furniture that has travelled with me from house to house." (Learning to Look, p. 313).

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