CIRCA 1840

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CABINET**
CIRCA 1840
The rectangular white marble top above a pair of glazed panelled doors enclosing two shelves, flanked on each side by an arched glazed panelled door flanked by lotus-leaf clasped columns enclosing two shelves, on a plinth base, later gilded
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 80 in. (203 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44 cm.) deep

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The bookcase of black-figured rosewood, with its marble top supported by palm-wrapped 'Pompeian' columnettes and a stepped 'stylobate' plinth, is designed in the robust Grecian fashion of the early 19th century. Such 'Dwarf' bookcases, with silk-curtained doors and with tops dressed with vases, busts, etc., served in fashionable Living Rooms, Breakfast Rooms as well as Libraries, as featured in George Smith's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826 (pl. 142).

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