BY JOHNSTONE JEANES AND CO., LONDON, MID-19TH CENTURY

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A large English walnut side cabinet
By Johnstone Jeanes and Co., London, Mid-19th Century
The upper part with a swan neck pediment, centred by an octagonal shaped flower-filled urn with ribbon-tied foliate swags, above a mirror flanked to each side by a pair of fluted columns with Corinthian capitals, on winged griffin supports, above a 'D'-shaped shelf, the lower part with angled inverted volute brackets, with a breakfront 'D'-shaped top, the frieze with a drawer stamped JOHNSTONE JEANES & CO./67 NEW BOND ST. LONDON/5078 above a pair of panelled doors, with adjustable shelf interior, flanked to each side by a recess with a pair of bacchic caryatids, on plinth base
101 in. (256.5 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76.5 cm.) deep; 140 in. (355.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

The imposing mirror-backed sideboard, designed in the French/Renaissance manner, corresponds to one exhibited by Messrs Johnstone and Jeanes at the London 1862 Exhibition. The Art Journal's illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition described the firm as 'one of the oldest in London, having been established in New Bond Street for upwards of a century; its renown has been obtained not only by a good and substanial manufacture, but by continual study to introduce Art into all their works' (p. 207).

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