ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM SMEE AND SONS

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD CANTERBURY
Attributed to William Smee and Sons
With four shaped pierced dividers, joined by turned balusters, above a cavetto-moulded plinth, enclosing a mahogany-lined frieze drawer on scrolled cabriole legs and brass castors
19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high; 24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep

注意事項

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拍品專文

This Canterbury follows a design published in 1850 by William Smee & Sons in their Designs for Furniture, 1850-1855 (see E. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 422). Smee and Sons of Finsbury Pavement, London, earned a reputation for good quality furniture, exhibiting at the Great Exhibition in 1855. The firm were both wholesalers and retailers and rank as one of the largest wholesalers of the mid-19th Century, making furniture in the fashionable Greek, Roman, Gothic, French and Elizabethan historical styles.