A PAIR OF VICTORIAN MAHOGANY AND EBONISED REVOLVING DRUM BOOKCASES

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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN MAHOGANY AND EBONISED REVOLVING DRUM BOOKCASES
Each with a gadrooned and ring-turned finial above four circular graduated tiers, a green-marbled centre and simulated bookspine book-divides, the drum table with two drawers and four simulated drawers, on a ring-turned support and four square tapering cabriole legs, brass caps and castors, restorations, each stamped to the underside 'T. CROOKE W. PRIEST B. FRIARS LONDON W', one lock stamped 'VR' below a crown
31 in. (79 cm.) diam.; 70 in. (178 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

William Priest, established his Blackfriars warehouse in Water Street in 1837. He also used a trade label: 'W. Priest's Office & Library Furniture Warehouse, 17 & 24 Water St Backfriars...'. His stamp also features on a library table, with similarly reeded pedestal and Grecian-scrolled claw, illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, (p. 383, fig. 751). Messrs. Morgan and Sanders of Catherine Street, The Strand introduced a multi-tiered library table, which was illustrated in Rudolph Ackerman's, The Repository of Arts, London, 1810 (p. 177, pl. 15).
A closely related four-tier library table is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, London, rev.ed., 1965, (p. 83, fig. 197).

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