A PAIR OF GEORGE III PALE-GREEN AND WHITE-PAINTED OPEN BOOKSHELVES ON STANDS, each with rectangular galleried top above two shelves between scroll sides, one with two short and one long mahogany-lined drawers decorated with flower-sprays, the other with one long mahogany-lined drawer simulated as three drawers, the stand with similarly decorated frieze and on beaded square tapering legs joined by an undertier, lacking one back foot, one with fragmentary depository label of WHITE & CO, WINCHESTER, inscribed in ink MRS P BARING, the decoration refreshed and with traces of ebonising, the lower part of one back leg replaced

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III PALE-GREEN AND WHITE-PAINTED OPEN BOOKSHELVES ON STANDS, each with rectangular galleried top above two shelves between scroll sides, one with two short and one long mahogany-lined drawers decorated with flower-sprays, the other with one long mahogany-lined drawer simulated as three drawers, the stand with similarly decorated frieze and on beaded square tapering legs joined by an undertier, lacking one back foot, one with fragmentary depository label of WHITE & CO, WINCHESTER, inscribed in ink MRS P BARING, the decoration refreshed and with traces of ebonising, the lower part of one back leg replaced
18½in. (47cm.) wide; 43¾in. (111cm.) high; 11in. (28cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Mrs. P. Baring
Bought from Biggs of Maidenhead on 13 September 1960 for #355 10s
Literature
Country Life, 22 September 1960, Biggs of Maidenhead advertisement

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