Lot Essay
A related bidet, corresponding to a pattern in Messrs. A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788 (pl. 83) was supplied for Corsham Court, Wiltshire (sold by the Executors of the Rt. Hon. John, 6th Baron Methuen, Sotheby's, Syon House, Middlesex, 14 May 1997, lot 37).