A GEORGE IV ORMOLU-MOUNTED PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CABINET attributed to Morel and Seddon, the rectangular verde antico marble top above a panelled frieze with simulated drawer and two panelled doors enclosing a fitted interior with three mahogany-lined drawers, flanked by pilaster-strips, on an inverted breakfront plinth, branded to the reverse VR flanking a crown 1866 WINDSOR CASTLE ROOM 259

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細節

A GEORGE IV ORMOLU-MOUNTED PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CABINET attributed to Morel and Seddon, the rectangular verde antico marble top above a panelled frieze with simulated drawer and two panelled doors enclosing a fitted interior with three mahogany-lined drawers, flanked by pilaster-strips, on an inverted breakfront plinth, branded to the reverse VR flanking a crown 1866 WINDSOR CASTLE ROOM 259
38½in. (98cm.) wide; 33½in. (85cm.) high; 17in. (43cm.) deep

來源

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 4 May 1990, lot 124

拍品專文

The elegant plinth-supported and marble-topped 'commode' chest-of-drawers, with its French-style mottled mahogany, is likely to have formed part of the Windsor Castle furnishings commissioned before 1830 by King George IV, and supplied under the direction of his architect Sir Jeffrey Wyatville (d.1840) by Nicholas Morel, the King's 'Upholsterer in Ordinary' and George Seddon, who formed a partnership in 1827 to furnish the Castle (see: G. Beard, The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1986, p. 624).
The cabinet bears the brand of the 1866 inventory carried out for Queen Victoria by Messrs. Holland & Son