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The clothes-press, designed in the George II style promoted by James Gibbs', Book of Architecture, 1728, incorporates serpentined panels relating to those of a four-poster bed that is likely to have been supplied in the 1740s for Knebworth House, Hertfordshire. The bed was sold by the Lady Cobbold, in these Rooms, 14 November 1996, lot 36. The bed is attributed to the celebrated Clerkenwell cabinet-maker Giles Grendey (d. 1780), who was noted in 1740 as a 'Great Dealer in the Cabinet Way'. His label features on an open-pedimented clothes-press, also fitted with a dressing-tray and the same shaped panels, that was illustrated in R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, 1955, rev. ed., 1955, fig. 51. There is a similar clothes-press on a stand with egg-and-dart moulded panels in the Victoria and Albert Museum (illustrated in R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, op.cit., p. 144, fig. 49).
A very similar clothes-press was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 19 July 1974, lot 63 and again from the collection of the late Professor R. H. Graveson C.B.E., Q.C., Sotheby's London, 5 July 1991, lot 76. A related clothes-press with closely related base was sold anonymously , Sotheby's New York, 11 October 1996, lot 269. It was previously in the Percival Griffiths Collection.
A very similar clothes-press was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 19 July 1974, lot 63 and again from the collection of the late Professor R. H. Graveson C.B.E., Q.C., Sotheby's London, 5 July 1991, lot 76. A related clothes-press with closely related base was sold anonymously , Sotheby's New York, 11 October 1996, lot 269. It was previously in the Percival Griffiths Collection.