A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY AND EBONISED THREE-TIER ETAGERE
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A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY AND EBONISED THREE-TIER ETAGERE

细节
A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY AND EBONISED THREE-TIER ETAGERE
The rectangular top with low three-quarter gallery above a frieze drawer and two further tiers with turned columnar supports, on ring-turned tapering legs with brass caps and castors, branded 'TREASURY''WR IV' below a crown
34½ in. (87.5 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43 cm.) deep
来源
Government House, Dublin.
注意事项
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

An essential feature of the early 19th Century club or restaurant dining-room was a galleried and triple-tiered 'Running Sideboard' or 'Dinner Wagon', which G. Loudon in his Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1833, also described as being 'a light mobile version of the 16th Century court cupboard'. George Smith provided patterns in his 'Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826.
This handsome sideboard, with its Grecian-black embellishments and reed-enriched pillars, reflects the antique style promoted by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. It is likely to have been manufactured in Dublin, and was commissioned for Government House, Dublin. It bears a Government inventory brand of the 1830s, and a bolder brand 'Treasury',