A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY, EBONY AND EBONISED-INLAID SIDE CABINETS

THE PROPERTY OF MISS ELIZABETH COLLIS (LOTS 1-72)

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A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY, EBONY AND EBONISED-INLAID SIDE CABINETS
Each with a rounded eared rectangular breakfront top above a central frieze drawer and a yellow pleated-silk brass trellis-panelled hinged door enclosing a shelf flanked by line-inlaid columns and concave-sided conforming panels, flanked by conforming columns, on ring-turned feet, restorations, one leg later
35½ in. (90.5 cm.) wide; 35¾ in. (90.5 cm.) high; 18¾ in. (47.5 cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

The cabinets, with their hollowed corners, Etruscan-black inlay, golden trellis panels and columnettes terminating in reeded stumps, relate to 'cabinet' patterns illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's, The Cabinet Dictionary, London, 1803, pls. 24 and 25.

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