Live Auction 5969A West Country Tradition - Avon Antiques, Bradford-upon-Avon, Wiltshire
Lot 188

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD

LATE 18TH CENTURY

Closed21 May 2009

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GBP 2,125

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD
LATE 18TH CENTURY
With pierced gothic-fretted pediment surmounted by three pierced obelisk finials, above a bowfront cupboard door carved with gothic arches, enclosing two shaped shelves, on moulded plinth
44½ in. (113 cm.) high; 28½ in. (72.5 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep

Specialist note

The china-cupboard, with reed-trellised door and china-rail cresting flowered in trefoils, relates to the gothic fashion popularized by George Smith's, Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808 (see pl.101); and its obelisk finials are fretted in Elizabethan fashion.