A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CABINET

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CABINET
The rectangular top crossbanded in kingwood, above a pair of doors with satinwood oval panels, enclosing five sliding trays, with oval-panelled sides, the front corners with recessed reeded and associated acanthus-clasped baluster columns, on later turned tapering feet with gadrooned collars, inscribed in chalk '149' twice and with pencil inscription on the reverse 'Dam/B4/Rml'
42 in. (107 cm.) high; 49 in. (124.5 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Provenance

Jeremy Ltd., London.
The René Rivkin Collection, sold Sotheby's Sydney, 3 June 2001, lot 300 (A$35,750).

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Lot Essay

The commode doors, with their elegant Roman-medallions framed in parquetried tablets, reflect the George III 'antique' fashion of the 1770s as featured in Thomas Malton's Compleat Treatise on Perspective, 1775 (pl. XXXIV), and later in Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. Palm and reed-wrapped pillars are sunk in the corners in the manner of a pier-commode-table in the French/Pompeian manner introduced in the late 1780s at George, Prince of Wales' Carlton House mansion, and illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793 (no. 6, pl. 4).
A pair of related cabinets, surmounted by 'chiffonier' shelves, was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 13 December 1951, lot 96.

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