Lot 155
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AN IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY SATINWOOD AND BURR-ELM MARQUETRY SIDE CABINET with concave-fronted shaped rectangular top banded overall and inlaid with a scrolling foliate arabesque border, the interwoven ring cornice above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer with white metal handles and a pair of trelliswork concave-fronted doors enclosing a reeded shelf, the doors flanked by engaged reeded tapering supports headed by ebonised leopard-mask roundesl and with rounded angles, on spirally-reeded urn-shaped feet

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AN IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY SATINWOOD AND BURR-ELM MARQUETRY SIDE CABINET with concave-fronted shaped rectangular top banded overall and inlaid with a scrolling foliate arabesque border, the interwoven ring cornice above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer with white metal handles and a pair of trelliswork concave-fronted doors enclosing a reeded shelf, the doors flanked by engaged reeded tapering supports headed by ebonised leopard-mask roundesl and with rounded angles, on spirally-reeded urn-shaped feet
45¼in. (115cm.) wide; 34¾in. (88.5cm.) high; 17¾in. (45cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This cabinet, with its Egyptian lioness-head medallions, is conceived as a 'pier-commode-table' and, with its columnar legs and spiral-twist feet in the French 'antique' manner, it relates to two patterns of commode executed by Adam Weisweiler in the 1780s and aquired for Carlton House, London, by George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV (see: London, the Queen's Gallery, 'Carlton House', Exhibition Catalogue, 1991, pp. 23, 77 and 103). Thomas Sheraton's drawing of one of these, dated 1793, featured in the Appendix to his Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1802, pl. 24, while this cabinet's rounded angles and trellis-panelled doors appear in a 'Cabinet' pattern published in his Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, pl. 31

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