Details
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BUREAU-CABINET
CIRCA 1755, NORTHERN COUNTIES
The broken arched pediment carved with foliate scrolls and centering a later giltwood eagle above a blind fret-carved frieze over a pair of cabinet doors with molded lozenges and foliate-clasp angles flanked by stop-fluted Corinthian pilasters enclosing two ranges of shelves and pigeonholes, drawers and central tambour compartment above, over short and three long drawers flanked by fluted colonettes with Corinthian capitals and fret-carved bases on ogee bracket feet
99in. (252cm.) high, 49½in. (126cm.) wide, 23½in (60cm.) deep
CIRCA 1755, NORTHERN COUNTIES
The broken arched pediment carved with foliate scrolls and centering a later giltwood eagle above a blind fret-carved frieze over a pair of cabinet doors with molded lozenges and foliate-clasp angles flanked by stop-fluted Corinthian pilasters enclosing two ranges of shelves and pigeonholes, drawers and central tambour compartment above, over short and three long drawers flanked by fluted colonettes with Corinthian capitals and fret-carved bases on ogee bracket feet
99in. (252cm.) high, 49½in. (126cm.) wide, 23½in (60cm.) deep
Provenance
With Spink and Son Limited, London (featured in the Grosvenor House Antique Dealers' Fair catalogue, 1970, p.99)
Gertrude A. Mellon, sold Sotheby's New York, 12-14 April 1984, lot 794
Gertrude A. Mellon, sold Sotheby's New York, 12-14 April 1984, lot 794
Literature
P. Broome, The Hyde Park Collection, 1989, pp. 134-135
Further details
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