A PAIR OF GEORGE IV MAHOGANY BEDSIDE COMMODES

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV MAHOGANY BEDSIDE COMMODES
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS OF LANCASTER

Each with sarcophagus-shaped top with gadrooned edges and finial, above a shallow frieze with beaded panels and a door with applied rectangular banding with lotus angles enclosing one shelf and flanked by beaded panels surmounted and above roundels, on shaped gadrooned feet
16¾in. (42.5cm.) wide; 33½in. (85cm.) high; 13¾in. (35cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Probably supplied to Morton John Davison, Esq. (1778-1841), for Beamish Park, Co. Durham
Thence by indirect descent with the house to Robert Duncombe Shafto, Esq., of Beamish Park and subsequently of Bavington Hall

Lot Essay

The night-table pedestals are designed en suite with the Grecian style wardrobe (lot 152), while their flower-finials 'sarcophagus' domes derive from an 1803 pattern for a lidded cistern illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Encyclopedia 1804-7, pl. 68

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