ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE LINEN-PRESS
Attributed to Thomas Chippendale
The moulded dentil cornice above a pair of concave cut-corner panelled doors enclosing five sliding trays, the lower section with four short and one long drawer, with canted angles, the lower section carved with scrolled volutes, on bracket feet, the handles original, the backboards inscribed in chalk 'Davis'
73½ in. (187 cm.) high; 47¾ in. (121.5 cm.) wide; 27½ in. (70 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Thomas Chippendale provided a close pattern for a serpentine 'Commode Clothes Press' in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1762, no. 130. His pattern provides designs for a chest-of-drawers with straight canted angles and bracket feet, or a more elaborate version embellished with acanthus-wrapped trusses and truss bracket feet. The same pattern of acanthus-enriched handle and medallion plate features on a clothes-press supplied in 1771 for Nostell Priory, Yorkshire (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, figs. 239 and 263).

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