A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CLOTHES-PRESS

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CLOTHES-PRESS
IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

The rectangular dentilled cornice above a pair of fielded panelled doors with roundel-filled re-entrant upper angles and enclosing an interior of six mahogany-fronted and lined long drawers, the lower section with four short drawers and on shaped bracket feet, the reverse inscribed in chalk Pelham Court Chelsea, the later handles of the base section cast WT&S and with indistinct registration marks
51in. (129cm.) wide; 72¼in. (184cm.) high; 26½in. (67cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A pattern for a related clothes-press featured in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, pl. LXXXVIII. The doors' richly figured mahogany panels framed by moulded and hollow-cornered borders correspond to that of a secretaire, supplied by Chippendale for Nostell Priory, Yorkshire in 1766. Related mouled paterae appear on a secretaire which he supplied to Paxton House, Berwickshire, in the mid-1770s (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1987, Vol. II, figs. 90 and 91).

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