A PAIR OF GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND ROSEWOOD CABINETS

CIRCA 1790

Details

A PAIR OF GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND ROSEWOOD CABINETS
Circa 1790
In the manner of Adam Weisweiler, each with later striated yellow and grey marble-inset top above a panelled cabinet door, on a fall front secretaire, flanked by free standing columns over a panelled frieze drawer on faux-fluted, turned supports joined by a platform stretcher, on brass feet, columnar uprights above stretcher and stretcher appear to be 19th Century replacements
46in. (117cm.) high, 27in. (68.5cm.) wide, 14in. (37cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

The Property of a Gentleman, sold Christie's London, 5 July 1990, lot 62

Lot Essay

These cabinets with their reverse veneered panels are executed in the Louis XVI taste, a fashion promoted by George, Prince of Wales, later George IV. Their design is inspired by a pair sold by Adam Weisweiler (d.1820), cabinetmaker to King Louis XVI, which was to George, 2nd Earl Spencer (d.1834) by the Parisian dealer Dominique Daguerre. Daguerre opened his premises in Sloane Street in the 1780s and was patronised by the future king (Treasures from Althorp, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1970, fig.36). Another pair of gueridon tables directly inspired by French examples was sold Sotheby's London, 22 May 1992, lot 262. Another related cabinet, based on a design in Sheraton's Drawing Book of 1784, pl.16 but inspired by French prototypes was sold from the Collection of Henry Ford II, Sotheby's New York, 26 January 1985, lot 207 and is illustrated in F.Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1985, p.66.