A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD BOOKCASE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Details

A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD BOOKCASE
Early 19th century
With a molded rectangular cornice above a pair of trellis-filled doors enclosing shelves flanked by cluster columns, the base with a pair of panelled doors enclosing mahogany-lined drawers, the sides similarly panelled, on bun feet, with typed cloth label HAR IMP 70
86in. (219cm.) high; 39in. (99cm.) wide; 15¼in. (39cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 7 July 1989, lot 103

Lot Essay

The distinctive flanking fasces-filled pilasters relate to a group of bookcases of which one is labelled by Robert Herring and Son., cabinet-makers and upholsterers of Fleet Street, and supplied by them to the Lord Mayor's Mansion House in the City of London. That bookcase was illustrated by Stair and Co. in the National Art Collections Fund Review, London, 1989. A third related bookcase is attributed to Marsh and Tatham and has lower doors mounted with the same wreathed owls as on the Anglesey Desk and was sold Christie's London, 8 July 1993, lot 109.