ATTTRIBUTED TO SMEE AND SON

This elegant folio-stand, with lyre-scrolled trestles in the l830s Grecian fashion, can be attributed to the Moorfields cabinet-makers Smee, who were established in l806 and operated as William Smee and Sons from l838. They became one of the largest London wholesalers of the mid-19th Century, and included the pattern for this folio-stand in their Designs for Furniture, 1850-55, (E. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, London, 1977, p. 550).
A similar mahogany folio stand, was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 4 June 1998, lot 86, another rosewood folio stand was sold anonymously, Christie's South Kensington, 4 February 1998, lot 192.