AN EARLY VICTORIAN BURR-BIRCH, AMBOYNA AND PARCEL-GILT LIBRARY CABINET

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN BURR-BIRCH, AMBOYNA AND PARCEL-GILT LIBRARY CABINET
The rectangular leather-lined top with canted corners and moulded edge above a scrolling foliate and flowerhead-filled frieze, above a pair of panelled doors enclosing one shelf each, the canted corners carved with scrolling acanthus and husk trails, with a shaped apron, on paw feet, the lock inscribed 'J.T.NEEDS 100 NEW BOND STREET LATE I. BRAMAH 194 PICCADILLY', previously with further shelves to the interior
36 in. (92 cm.) high; 61 in. (155 cm.) wide; 31½ in. (80 cm.) deep

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Sale room notice

The door panels of the front doors are later.

Lot Essay

The Library cabinet, with fine marble-figured veneer, is embellished with a golden frieze of flowered ribbon-guilloche; while its palm-and -acanthus-wrapped Roman trusses terminate in bacchic lion-paws. Its 'antique' or 'Old French' style was popularised by Thomas King's, Specimens of Furniture in the Elizabethan and Louis Quatorze Styles, 1835; and by Henry Whitaker's, The Practical Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Treasury of Designs, 1847.

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