A GEORGE III MAHOGANY, SATINWOOD, BURR-ELM AND EBONISED SIDE CABINET

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細節

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY, SATINWOOD, BURR-ELM AND EBONISED SIDE CABINET
The rectangular top with inverted rounded front corners and inverted centre, with a foliate trailing border, above a frieze drawer and a pair of brass trellis-panelled doors backed by pleated green silk, enclosing a shelf, flanked on each side by tapering reeded columns headed by lion masks, on spirally-reeded tapering feet
35 in. (89 cm.) high; 45 ¼ in. (115 cm.) wide; 17 ½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep

來源

Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 18 November 1993, lot 155 (£43,300).

拍品專文

This cabinet, with its Egyptian lioness-head medallions, is conceived as a 'pier-commode-table' and, with its columnar legs and spiral-twist feet in the French 'antique' manner, it relates to two patterns of commode executed by Adam Weisweiler in the 1780s and aquired for Carlton House, London, by George, Prince of Wales, later George IV (see: London, the Queen's Gallery, 'Carlton House', Exhibition Catalogue, 1991, pp. 23, 77 and 103). Thomas Sheraton's drawing of one of these, dated 1793, featured in the Appendix to his Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1802, pl. 24, while this cabinet's rounded angles and trellis-panelled doors appear in a 'Cabinet' pattern published in his Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, pl. 31.