Lot 71
71
Various Properties
A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND PENWORK CHIFFONIER with mirror-backed stepped superstructure flanked by lotus-leaf-carved scrolled volutes above two pairs of short drawers and two long drawers with black and white penwork drawer-fronts after the 'antique', the lower section with five variously-sized frieze drawers above a pair of hinged glazed doors with ivory silk lining enclosing an adjustable shelf, on turned tapering bulbous feet

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND PENWORK CHIFFONIER with mirror-backed stepped superstructure flanked by lotus-leaf-carved scrolled volutes above two pairs of short drawers and two long drawers with black and white penwork drawer-fronts after the 'antique', the lower section with five variously-sized frieze drawers above a pair of hinged glazed doors with ivory silk lining enclosing an adjustable shelf, on turned tapering bulbous feet
35¾in.(91cm.)wide; 51¾in.(131.5cm.)high; 17in.(43cm.)deep

Lot Essay

In view of its unusual form and decoration, it would seem that this chiffonier, with its mirror-backed display-shelf, was constructed to display the intricate pen-work patterns. In the early 19th century, patterms fpr such work in the 'antique' manner, appropriate as a 'Ladies Amusement' and entitles 'Ornaments for Painting on Wood and Fancy Work' featured in Rudolph Ackermann, Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, 1809-28

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