A REGENCY MAHOGANY CLOTHES-PRESS

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CLOTHES-PRESS
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS OF LANCASTER

The upper section with two panelled doors with applied rectangular banding with lotus-bud angles, enclosing four slides, and surmounted by a panelled frieze and a scrolling pediment with cenral palmette, the lower section with three graduated long drawers on gadrooned, shaped feet
52in. (132cm.) wide; 89¾in. (228cm.) high; 23½in. (60cm.) deep
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

This wardrobe is designed in the Grecian style with its reeded cornice surmounted by a voluted and palmette-enriched pediment. Its feet and patera drawer-handles are also reeded, while the sunk panels of the doors are veneered with 'opened out' panels of exceptionally rich figured mahogany. The latter's reed-ribbbon frame enclosing corner palmettes derives from an 1806 pattern illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Encyclopedia, 1804-7, which also features the reeded stump foot pattern, pl. 9 and 22

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