POSSIBLY BY MAYHEW AND INCE

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY URNS AND PEDESTALS
Possibly by Mayhew and Ince
Each with an urn and top with flaming finial, the sides with goat-mask ring handles, on a square base with tap, on a square pedestal, with two oval panels enclosing on one a shelf and a drawer, the other enclosing one drawer, a cupboard and a cellaret drawer, on a plinth base, one tap replaced, with depository label for 'WHITE & CO...WINCHESTER' and printed 'Hordern Esq', inscribed in pencil '6385', restorations, one tap later and the interior of one cupboard altered, the 'hot' pedestal with the upper oval and some veneer replacement, both with some mouldings replaced
74 in. (188 cm.) high; 19 in. (48 cm.) square (2)

Provenance

Hordern Esq.
Bought from Hotspur in 1981.

Literature

H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, 1911, vol. III, p. 165-166, fig. 179-180.

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Lot Essay

The London cabinet-makers Mayhew and Ince are particularly well known for their use of the foliate wreath handle. In 1782 they supplied a satinwood 'Secretary' to Lady Palmerston for Broadlands, Hampshire with foliate wreath handles that also appear on a satinwood bedroom commode they made for Broadlands (H. Roberts, 'Towards an English Louis Seize, Furniture at Broadlands, Hampshire - II', Country Life, 5 February 1981, pp. 346-347, fig. 1).
A closely related pair of urns and pedestals, attributed to Mayhew and Ince, was with Pelham Galleries, London.

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