A PAIR OF EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHESTS-OF-DRAWERS

CIRCA 1760

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A PAIR OF EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHESTS-OF-DRAWERS
CIRCA 1760
Each with a shaped quarter-veneered top above a serpentine front fitted with four graduated drawers, one top drawer fitted with a felt-lined dressing slide and flanked by blind fretwork-carved angles on bracket feet
30¾ in. (78 cm.) high, 40 in. (101.5 cm.) high, 19 in. (48 cm.) deep (2)

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Please note that there are minor differences between the two chests, including a one inch difference in depth.

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Lot Essay

A closely related chest by London cabinet-maker Philip Bell (d. 1774) of 'The White Swan' bears his later rococo trade label designed by Matthias Darly (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 100, fig. 102). Interestingly, one of Bell's patrons, Nathaniel Ryder, later 1st Earl of Harrowby, employed many of London's top cabinet-makers; his account book of 1766 records "To Bell for 2 chests of Drawers for Shiplake" (his Oxfordshire house).

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