A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BASIN-STAND

CIRCA 1755

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BASIN-STAND
Circa 1755
The circular basin holder with gadrooned edge above foliate scrolled supports centering an urn, the triangular mid-section with a pair of short drawers over further foliate scrolled supports, on pierced arched splayed cabriole legs similarly-carved and joined by a shelf centering a circular dished well, top drawer to mid-section with printed and inscribed paper label, MOUSE..RO/GROSVENOR DEPOSITORY .../ELIZABETH/MR.BROWN/NO..., lacking urn cover
31in. (79cm.) high, 12in. (31cm.) diameter of top

Lot Essay

This superbly carved stand can be compared to an example from the Judge Irwin Untermyer collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see Y.Hackenbroch, ed., English Furniture with some furniture of other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl.170).