AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS SHERATON

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND EBONISED INLAID BOWFRONT CHEST
After a design by Thomas Sheraton
The crossbanded rectangular top above a green baize-lined slide and four part cedar-lined graduated drawers, flanked on each side by a part-reeded baluster column headed by a lion mask, on paw feet, inscribed in pencil '28/1/55', the handles apparently original

Provenance

Acquired by Colonel Norman Colville M.C.

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Lot Essay

The bowfronted shape of this chest relates to a design published by Thomas Sheraton in The Appendix to the The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book of 1793, (plate XV). This design featured a pair of chests, one bowfronted and with a fitted top drawer, the other, to match, but of inverted form.

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