CIRCA 1750

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY AND BOXWOOD ARCHITECTURAL ESTATE CABINET
CIRCA 1750
The inverted breakfront cornice above a pair of doors with stop-fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals, enclosing a fitted interior with compartments and shelves, the base with moulded edge above a fitted drawer with simulated fluting, guttae and triglyphs above an interlaced fret frieze and further architectural facade with Tuscan pilasters enclosing further shelves on a plinth, the sides possibly re-veneered
90in. (228cm.) high; 48¾in. (124cm.) wide; 19½in. (48.5cm.) deep

Provenance

Phillips Ramster, Chiddingfold, Surrey, circa 1995

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Lot Essay

This handsome cabinet, designed in the George II Roman or Serlian fashion, has a triumphal tabernacle-compartment set in its recessed centre and framed by paired Corinthian pilasters, while its golden arch is inlaid in trompe l'oeil with flutes in the antique fashion popularised in the 1760's. While the fluted entablature of its similarly inlaid commode base is accompanied by Grecian-fretted ribbon banding the metopes of its Doric triumphal-arch facade. A related cabinet, with a Grecian-fretted entablature and Ionic-pilastered facade, bears the inscribed date of 1763 beside the signature of the Long Acre cabinet-maker William Hallett (d.1781) ( A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig 69; and G. Beard, 'The Quest for William Hallett', Furniture History Society Journal, 1985 pp.220-225, nt. 24)

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