A REGENCY MAHOGANY WARDROBE

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY WARDROBE
The central suspended chest with reeded rectangular top above two short drawers and four long drawers, all with ceder lining, flanked to each side by a pedestal with central shell to the dome pediment, above a panelled door enclosing six shelves in total, on turned baluster feet, one foot replaced, four shelves later
61¾ in. (157 cm.) high; 92 in. (234 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Provenance

James Edward Backhouse J.P. (d.1897), Hurworth Grange, Co. Durham and by descent to his son-in-law Jonathan Edward Hodgkin J.P., (d. 1952) of Dryderdale Hall, co. Durham, and by descent to the present owner.

Lot Essay

Hurworth Grange was designed in 1873 for the banker, James Backhouse, of Messrs Backhouse and Co. Darlington, by Alfred Waterhouse (d. 1905), celebrated as the architect of London's Natural History Museum. It was largely furnished by William Morris (d. 1896).
Backhouse's son-in-law, Jonathan Edward Hodgkin inherited the wardrobe in 1875 and it was moved to Dryderdale Hall, Co. Durham, also designed by Alfred Waterhouse.
This wardrobe, displaying Venus-shell badges in arched and reed-enriched pediments, is designed in the early l9th Century French antique manner, and with its cupboard-flanked drawers relates to patterns for 'Ladies Dwarf Wardrobes' issued in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture' l808, pl. 134 and his Cabinet Makers Guide, l826, pl. XXXI.

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