A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE KNEEHOLE DRESSING-TABLE

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE KNEEHOLE DRESSING-TABLE
Banded overall in amaranth, the rectangular top with central oval panel, above three frieze drawers and a central recess with a pair of oval-panelled doors enclosing a shelf, flanked on each side by a conforming panelled door enclosing three drawers, on bracket feet, the handles original
31 in. (78.5 cm.) high; 50½ in. (128 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (60 cm.) deep (2)

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拍品專文

This form of hollow-centred commode relates to one executed around 1780 by the Berkeley Square cabinet-maker John Linnell (d.1796) and now in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (see H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John LinnelL, London, 1980, vol. II, p. 59, fig. 119).