Lot Essay
Around 1940 Messrs Greenwood supplied a number of items of furniture, now displayed at Temple Newsam House, Yorkshire.
The Property of
the late LADY MARGARET ILLINGWORTH
Sold by Order of the Executors
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY-INLAID COMMODE, in the Transitional style, the breakfront top centred by a foliate trellis panel and with foliate banding, above two drawers inlaid sans traverse with matching decoration and flanked to the angles with an ormolu-bracket and laurel festoons, the sides each inlaid with a foliate marquetry panel, on square shaped legs with claw and acanthus-cast sabots, the top drawer with an ivory plaque inscribed W.F.GREENWOOD, LTD ANTIQUE DEALERS & FURNISHERS 24, STONE GATE, YORK., the reverse with paper storage label printed 4155 ROWNTREES REMOVALS AND WAREHOUSING SCARBOROUGH
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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY-INLAID COMMODE, in the Transitional style, the breakfront top centred by a foliate trellis panel and with foliate banding, above two drawers inlaid sans traverse with matching decoration and flanked to the angles with an ormolu-bracket and laurel festoons, the sides each inlaid with a foliate marquetry panel, on square shaped legs with claw and acanthus-cast sabots, the top drawer with an ivory plaque inscribed W.F.GREENWOOD, LTD ANTIQUE DEALERS & FURNISHERS 24, STONE GATE, YORK., the reverse with paper storage label printed 4155 ROWNTREES REMOVALS AND WAREHOUSING SCARBOROUGH
46in. (117cm.) wide; 33¼in. (84.5cm.) high; 21¾in. (55.3cm.) deep
46in. (117cm.) wide; 33¼in. (84.5cm.) high; 21¾in. (55.3cm.) deep