ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1760-70

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST
ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1760-70
The moulded rectangular top above a green baize-lined slide, two short and three long graduated drawers, on ogee bracket feet, with original handles and escutcheons

32 ¾ in. (83 cm.) high; 38 in. (96.5 cm.) wide; 21 ¼ in. (54 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The use of red wash on the secondary timbers of the back and underside and the short-grain drawer kickers are features associated with Thomas Chippendale's St. Martin's Lane workshop. The asymmetrical sculpted drawer handles and escutcheons recall Chippendale's library table supplied in 1759 for Dumfries House (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, p. 236, fig. 431 & 432) and the ogee bracket feet recall a clothes-press of 1767 and a tallboy or 'double chest' of c. 1770-75, both made for Nostell Priory (ibid., p. 118, fig. 207 and p. 135, fig. 244).

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