A REGENCY ENGRAVED BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD BOOKCASE
A REGENCY ENGRAVED BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD BOOKCASE

CIRCA 1820

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A REGENCY ENGRAVED BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD BOOKCASE
Circa 1820
The eared rectangular top with a fleur-de-lys form gallery and conformingly inlaid frieze, above a pair of glazed and scroll inlaid doors enclosing three adjustable shelves between columns, raised on boldly carved claw feet with scrolled spandrels, the interior later fitted, the backboards replaced
56¼in. (143cm.) high, 56¼in. (143cm.) wide, 19½in. (49.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This elegant bookcase typifies the revived taste for Boulle furniture among English cognoscenti of the 1820's as popularized by such influential collectors as the Prince Regent, later George IV, and William Beckford. The demand for Boulle furniture (or 'Buhl', as it was known) was catered to by a range of antiquarian dealers in London who not only dealt in old furniture but would also adapt 18th century Boulle pieces or even make examples in the Boulle style.
Such dealers and cabinet-makers included Louis le Gaigneur who termed himself a 'French Buhl Manufacturer' and worked almost exclusively for George IV and his circle, the firm of Town and Emmanuel of 103 Bond St, 'Manufacturers of Buhl Marqueterie' and Thomas Parker of Air St., Piccadilly, who in 1813 supplied a pair of Boulle marquetry coffers-on-stands to the Prince Regent which remain in the British Royal Collection.

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