Lot 243
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A LATE GEORGE III ROSEWOOD AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED BONHEUR-DU-JOUR
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A LATE GEORGE III ROSEWOOD AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED BONHEUR-DU-JOUR

ATTRIBUTED TO SEDDON, SONS & SHACKLETON, CIRCA 1800

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A LATE GEORGE III ROSEWOOD AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED BONHEUR-DU-JOUR
ATTRIBUTED TO SEDDON, SONS & SHACKLETON, CIRCA 1800
The superstructure fitted with drawers and two doors, decorated with oval prints with indistinct figures, with a leather-lined writing-surface below and fitted drawer enclosing two drawers, on polygonal tapering legs, the handles later, restorations
46½ in. (118 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The late Christopher Gilbert, the authority on Seddon, Sons & Shackleton and author of 'Seddon, Sons & Shackleton', Furniture History, 1997, pp. 1-29, believed this bonheur-du-jour to be made by them. It relates to their signed lady's dressing-table, now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, and another labelled example now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ibid., figs. 17-20).

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