IN THE MANNER OF GILES GRENDEY

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CLOTHES-PRESS
In the manner of Giles Grendey
The rectangular dentilled cornice above a pair of shaped fielded-panelled doors enclosing seven later slides, the lower section with two short and two long drawers, on bracket feet, the slides with labels for use and with further typed label for use, restorations, the handles later
70¾ in. (179.5 cm.) high; 49½ in. (126 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep

Provenance

Edwin John Burt, in 1930.
Anonymous sale, Christie's South Kensington, 2 February 2000, lot 81.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The clothes-press's richly-figured and finely-feathered door panels are serpentined in the French manner. They relate closely to those on a clothes-press bearing the trade label of Giles Grendey (d. 1780), cabinet-maker of St. John's Square, Clerkenwell (illustrated in R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, rev.ed., 1955, fig. 51). Serpentined panels also appear on the head piece of a four-post bed supplied in 1744 to John Robinson-Lytton (d. 1762) for Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, and attributed to Giles Grendey, sold by Lady Cobbold, in these Rooms, 14 November 1996, lot 36. A related clothes-press was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 9 July 1998, lot 123 (£11,500 inc. premium).

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