A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST-ON-CHEST

CIRCA 1775

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST-ON-CHEST
Circa 1775
The cresting centered by an arched panel carved with a bushel of wheat flanked by smaller fluted panels and fluted pedestals at the corners, each surmounted by an urn finial, above a dentilled cornice and frieze set with arches, over two short and three graduated drawers, the base with three graduated drawers, each with concave disk escutcheons and semi-circular pulls, above a curved apron, on ogee bracket feet
87in. (222cm.) high, 46in. (117.5cm.) wide, 25in. (63.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The bound wheat sheaf embellished tablet may represent a family crest. A similarly carved crest-rail appears on a suite of seat furniture attributed to Thomas Chippendale and probably supplied to the Hungerford family for Dingley Hall in the 1770's. A pair of chairs from the suite was sold in these Rooms, 20 April 1985, lot 160. While the chairs' crest-rails feature the simple wheat sheaf, the seat-rails (and the card tables en suite, one of which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) depict the complete family crest with wheat flanked by scythes issuing out of a Ducal coronet.

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