CIRCA 1750

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BEDSIDE CABINET
CIRCA 1750
With shaped top above a paneled door with rosettes to the angles, enclosing a shelf, on pierced supports ending in scrolling acanthus feet, the back edge of the top probably originally with superstructure
29¼ in. (74 cm.) high, 16½ in. (42.5 cm.) wide, 14½ in. (37 cm.) deep

Provenance

Sir Edward J. Dean Paul, Bart, Deceased, Cambridge House, Twickenham and 7 St. George's Place, London; Christie's, London, 4-10 March 1896, fifth day of sale, lot 781, described as 'An octagonal-shaped Chippendale mahogany cupboard, on carved open scroll stand' (21 gns. to 'D.L.S').
Leopold Hirsch, by 1923; Christie's, London, 7 May 1934, lot 33 (to Partridge).
With Frank Partridge, London, 1934.
Gift of Judge Irwin Untermeyer, 1964.

Literature

P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1924, vol. II, p. 146, fig. 3.
P. Macquoid, "Some 18th century furniture belonging to Mr. Leopold Hirsch- II", Country Life, 15 March 1924, pp. 395, 397, fig. 9.
Y. Hackenbroch, English furniture with some furniture of other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, p. 49, fig. 243, pl. 205.

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Lot Essay

The cupboard formed part of three extraordinary collections, representing a prevailing taste among 20th century collectors for mid-18th century carved mahogany. Its cut-corner panels with whorled floral corners compare to the corner cupboard once owned by Percival Griffiths and now in the Gerstenfeld collection (also illustrated in the Dictionary). The cupboard appears to have had a superstructure and likely appeared like the Mayhew and Ince pattern for a 'night table' in their 1762 Universal System of Household Furniture (pl. XXXIII).

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