A George III mahogany wardrobe

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A George III mahogany wardrobe
With a Greek key moulded cornice and blind fret-carved frieze, surmounted by a scrolling swan-neck pediment, above a pair of doors with geometrically astragal glazed upper sections and a panel below with re-entrant corners, with two drawers and bracket feet
60½in. (154cm.) wide

Sale room notice

The right hand drawer is stamped FROM WILLIAMSON & SONS GUILDFORD.
It is most likely that this wardrobe was rebuilt from an older carcase and retailed in the latter part of the 19th century by the above mentioned firm.

Lot Essay

The mosiaced glazing pattern of this bookcase is featured in a bookcase in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, pl.LXIII. The pictuesque drawer handles also belonged to a pattern favoured by Thomas Chippendale (see C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978. p.147, fig. 270).

The pediment is scallop-fluted in the antique manner, popularised by the architect John Vardy (d.1765) and features on picture frames supplied in the late 1750's for the salon at Holkham Hall, Norfolk (see J. Cornforth "Augustan Vision Restored" Country Life, 4th August 1988, p.91-92.

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