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