拍品 172
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The Property of THE EARL OF HALIFAX'S CHATTELS SETTLEMENT
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT-BOOKCASE, the central section with scrolled swan-neck pediment with flowerhead terminals and centred by a reeded urn, above two central geometrically-glazed doors enclosing five shelves, flanked by a pair of recessed doors and a further pair of doors each enclosing shelves, the base with fifteen variously-sized drawers, on plinth base

細節
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT-BOOKCASE, the central section with scrolled swan-neck pediment with flowerhead terminals and centred by a reeded urn, above two central geometrically-glazed doors enclosing five shelves, flanked by a pair of recessed doors and a further pair of doors each enclosing shelves, the base with fifteen variously-sized drawers, on plinth base
144in. (364cm.) wide; 112in. (284cm.) high; 19in. (49cm.) deep
來源
Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire, which was acquired by Sir Francis Lindley Wood, 2nd Bt. (1771-1846), in the early 19th Century
By descent through the Viscounts and Earls of Halifax to the present owner

拍品專文

The cabinet's elegantly serpentined pediment, with flowered volutes and foliated acroteria, is rendered in a lighter manner than that featured on bookcases designed in 1760 by the architect Robert Adam for the Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire (see: L. Harris, Robert Adam and Kedleston, Wisbech, 1987, pp. 44-45). Its glazing pattern, with hexagonal compartments, was engraved in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, pl. LXIII