A GEORGE I BURR-WALNUT TALLBOY

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A GEORGE I BURR-WALNUT TALLBOY
Feather-banded to the front, the cavetto rectangular cornice above three short and three long graduated drawers flanked by fluted canted angles, the lower section with a slide above three long drawers, the bottom drawer with an apsydal marquetry starburst, on bracket feet, inscribed in chalk to the reverse 'Lady Camrose'
72 in. (183 cm.) high; 41 in. (105 cm.) wide; 21 in. (55 cm.) deep

来源

Almost certainly bought by William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (d. 1954) and by descent.

拍品专文

'Tallboy' is the term used to describe a chest-on-chest and seems to have first been used in the late 18th Century, appearing in the Gillows Cost Books of 1784. It is usual to have three small drawers at the top, and in many cases, a central arched section at the bottom of the tallboy, inlaid with a sunburst of holly and ebony - an idea adopted from Holland and found on some of the finest tallboys of the period (C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, pp 367-369).'