MID 19TH CENTURY, BY ROBERT ROUGH

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A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN OAK HANGING DISPLAY CABINETS
MID 19TH CENTURY, BY ROBERT ROUGH
Each with a triangular pediment with scroll and anthemion cresting above a pair of glazed doors, flanked by fluted pilasters and with a velvet lined interior with shelves and scrolled brackets below
Each 59in. (150cm.) high, 45½in. (116cm.) wide, 9½in. (24cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Kitley House, Yealmpton, Devon, sold Christies House Sale, 19 and 20 June 1987, lot 78.

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Lot Essay

Kitley is one of the earliest Tudor revival houses in England, remodelled by George Stanley Repton in the early 1820's for Edmund Pollexfen Bastard.
Robert Rough, Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer and Appraiser, of 5 Ludgate Hill, Blackfriars, whose firm incorporated the earlier business of Thomas Paul and Co. undertook a considerable part of the re-furbishment at Kitley. The pair of hanging cabinets for china are identified in Rough's 1857 bills. He refers to '2 Cabinets for China each side of staircase window supported on carved brackets, the doors glazed with plate glass lined with Velvet & french polished £27.'

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