CIRCA 1770, POSSIBLY SCOTTISH

Details

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST
CIRCA 1770, POSSIBLY SCOTTISH
With concave front and sides, the shaped rectangular crosbanded top above four long graduated drawers, with canted sycamore-inlaid angles and shaped bracket feet, the handles replaced, the backboards possibly replaced
32 in. (81 cm.) high; 41 in. (104 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Provenance

Wm. Hemsworth & Son, 8 Fishergate, Ripon, Yorkshire, September 1959, where bought by the present owner for £160.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

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Lot Essay

An inlaid ribbon wreathes the top of this pier-commode chest, which reflects the 1780's antique fashion popularised by Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, (1793). Pearls enwreath the golden bas-relief paterae which embellish the 'Grecian' hollowed front; while the projecting pilasters are flowered with Love's lilies. They issue from golden fillets that frame gothic-arched tablets, such as the Edinburgh firm of Young, Trotter and Hamilton introduced in 1796 on tables supplied for Holyrood (see D.Jones, The Edinburgh cabinet and chair-Maker' Book of Prices 1805 - 1825, Edinburgh, 2000, fig. 33).

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