CIRCA 1770 AND ALTERED

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT-CABINET
Circa 1770 and altered
Of breakfront form, the molded broken swan's neck pediment set with whorling leaves centered by a waisted plinth, above a reeded cornice centered by an outset tablet carved with drapery, over two pairs of Gothic arch-glazed doors enclosing a green satin-lined interior with movable shelves, the outset lower section with Vitruvian scroll frieze above a pair of cut-corner panelled doors enclosing a movable shelf, flanked by four graduated short drawers to each side, on a molded base, inscribed in blue chalk Partridge c/o Mr. DH Farr/15/7/29 three times, the back with yellow chalk inscription 6818/232, probably originally part of a larger bookcase and with subsequent cuts and reveneering to the sides
101½in. (258cm.) high, 77in. (196cm.) wide, 19in. (48cm.) deep

Provenance

With Rice & Christy, London.
With Frank Partridge & Sons, Ltd., London.
With Daniel H. Farr, Inc., New York.
The Estate of the late Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 6-8 January 1955, lot 463.
The Collection of Carter Burden.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 13 October 1990, lot 215 ($55,000).

Lot Essay

A bookcase of a similar design and proportion, incorporating a Vitruvian scroll waist, was sold Sotheby's New York, 21 January 1989, lot 170 ($209,000). This example was formerly in the Jack Chrysler collection and exhibited in the CINOA exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1975.

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