AN EARLY GEORGIAN BURR-WALNUT AND WALNUT TALLBOY

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AN EARLY GEORGIAN BURR-WALNUT AND WALNUT TALLBOY
Cross and feather-banded overall, the top section with fluted chamferred angles, the moulded rectangular cavetto cornice above three short drawers and three long graduated drawers, the lower section with a brushing slide above three further graduated long drawers, the bottom drawer centred by an apse with an inlaid starburst, on later shaped bracket feet, restorations, top of right-hand side patched
41 in. (104 cm.) wide; 71¾ in. (182.5 cm.) high; 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Among a group of similar slide-fitted double chest-of-drawers inlaid with a chequered sunburst is one sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 17 October 1987, lot 146, and one sold anonymously in these Rooms, 6 April 1995, lot 265. A further related tallboy, once owned by the Bishop of Salisbury and bearing the label of Daniel Wild, cabinet-maker of St. Paul's Churchyard, was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 19 June 1980, lot 91 and 27 January 1983, lot 156 (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 469, fig. 951).

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