Lot 27
27
A REGENCY MARBLEISED AND MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE-BOOKCASE, decorated overall with specimen marbles and with sienna and verde antico simulated marble borders, the breakfront moulded cornice above three moulded panelled glazed doors, each enclosing a grey-painted mirror-backed interior with adjustable shelves, the breakfront base section with central mahogany-lined secretaire drawer with pigeon-holes, locked, flanked by two further mahogany-lined drawers and above three further glazed doors with later grey-painted fitted interiors with adjustable shelves, on tapering legs and block feet, the doors to the base section altered and previously hinged to the top, restorations, the marbleised decoration second quater 19th Century

Details
A REGENCY MARBLEISED AND MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE-BOOKCASE, decorated overall with specimen marbles and with sienna and verde antico simulated marble borders, the breakfront moulded cornice above three moulded panelled glazed doors, each enclosing a grey-painted mirror-backed interior with adjustable shelves, the breakfront base section with central mahogany-lined secretaire drawer with pigeon-holes, locked, flanked by two further mahogany-lined drawers and above three further glazed doors with later grey-painted fitted interiors with adjustable shelves, on tapering legs and block feet, the doors to the base section altered and previously hinged to the top, restorations, the marbleised decoration second quater 19th Century
67¼in. (171) wide; 87½in. (222cm.) high; 20¼in. (51.5cm.) deep
Provenance
Probably commissioned by Thomas Langford-Brooke (d.1815)
Probably marbelised for Peter Langford-Brooke (d. 1840)

Lot Essay

This tripartite glazed display-cabinet with satinwood veneered secretaire-drawer and herm feet has the elegant proportions of bookcases illustrated in A. Hepplewhite & Co's, Cabinet-Maker's and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788-94. As this 'commode' painted frieze is painted in a rare manner with trompe l'oeil marble plaquettes, it is possibly that the cabinet's marbeling took place in the early 19th Century to correspond with the marble inlay of the floral cabinet (lot 58)

This is probably either the 'Panelled book case with glazed book cupboards + Drawers under' or the 'mahog. cabinet and minerals', both of which were recorded in the Library in the 1840 Inventory

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