Live Auction 6171Christie's Interiors
AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD CANTERBURY
Lot 385

AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD CANTERBURY

IN THE MANNER OF J. C. LOUDON, CIRCA 1838

Closed24 May 2011

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GBP 875

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD CANTERBURY
IN THE MANNER OF J. C. LOUDON, CIRCA 1838
The three divisions centred with later laurel wreath above a drawer on tapering reeded legs on castors, bearing two ink inscriptions 'James May Cabinet Maker Beverley August 14 1838'
19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high; 20 in. (51 cm.) wide; 15 in. (38 cm.) deep

Specialist note

This Canterbury derives from a design by John C. Loudon published in Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1833.

J May is listed in Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert (eds.), Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, p. 589 as working as a cabinet maker in Beverley, Yorkshire from 1804.