19TH CENTURY

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A French ormolu-mounted mahogany display-cabinet
19th Century
In the Louis XVI style, the rectangular canted top surmounted by a three-quarter pierced gallery, above a frieze of flower-head filled entrelac and a glazed door and sides with berried laurel border, enclosing a plain interior with two glass shelves, flanked by simulating fluted angles headed by a clasp with patera and a garland, above an entrelac frieze drawer, on square tapering legs inlaid with husk trails joined by a concave-fronted rectangular undertier inlaid with floral trellis panels and terminating in tapering caps, fitted for electricity, the drawer stamped White Allom & Co
175cm. high x 80.5cm. wide x 35cm. deep

Special notice

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

Lot Essay

Sir Charles Allom, of White Allom and Company, was a leading decorator and builder in the early years of the twentieth century. Between 1920 and 1930 he carried out work for various royal palaces. He was responsible for the installation of the Robert Adam room at the Lady Lever Art Gallery. The present lot probably passed through White Allom and Company in the first twenty years of the twentieth century.

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