A GEORGE III MAHOGANY, SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY SIDEBOARD

LATE 18TH CENTURY, EMBELLISHED WITH LATER MARQUETRY, PROBABLY IN THE 19TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY, SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY SIDEBOARD
LATE 18TH CENTURY, EMBELLISHED WITH LATER MARQUETRY, PROBABLY IN THE 19TH CENTURY
The demi-lune top with scrolling foliate border, above a pair of simulated frieze drawers inlaid with husk swags and foliage, fronting a mahogany-lined drawer, above a shaped arch, flanked on each side by a deep drawer, its front with a conforming simulated frieze drawer above a panel with a ram-mask and ribbon-tied medallions, flanked on the outside by a conforming simulated arrangement enclosing a cupboard, on square tapering husk-inlaid legs with spade feet, with typed paper label 'Sir William Hicking, Bt., Brackenhurst Hall, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.', later handles
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 72¼ in. (183.5 cm.) wide; 30¼ in. (77 cm.) deep

Provenance

Sir William Hicking, Bt. (d. 1947), Brackenhurst Hall, Southwell, Nottinghamshire (according to the label).

Lot Essay

Brackenhurst Hall was built in 1828 by Reverend Thomas Coats Cane (d. 1887). His grandson, Edmund Henry Allenby, Field Marshal Lord Allenby of the Palestine Campaign in the 1914-18 War, was born there in 1861.

In 1899, the estate was purchased by William Norton Hicking who continued to make improvements to the house and grounds, eventually owning 250 acres. He was created Baronet in 1918. Hicking became nationally known as a breeder of dairy cattle ('Brackenhurst Jean' was reputed to be the finest type of dairy shorthorn ever bred). The estate was sold to Nottinghamshire County Council upon his death in 1947 whereupon Lady Hicking moved to Cranfield House. Brackenhurst Hall is now the School of Land-based Studies at Nottingham Trent University.

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