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A BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE
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A BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE

19TH CENTURY

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A BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE
19th Century
Decorated overall with foliate borders, the scalloped cornice with oval panels, above a pair of trellis-glazed doors with scalloped angles enclosing a claret material-lined interior with three shelves above a pair of conforming panelled doors, flanked on each side by a conforming glazed door enclosing four shelves above a cupboard enclosing a shelf, on a plinth base, with chalk inscription on the reverse 'Back of Bookcase Room Cabinet', one pane broken
104½ in. (265.5 cm.) high; 100 in. (254 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Jeremy.
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Lot Essay

The bookcase has lozenge-trellised doors corresponding to a pattern in Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788 (pl. 48), while its lacquer-inspired japanning relates to the early 19th Century Chinese fashion such as Frederick Crace (d. 1859) introduced to George, Prince Regent's Marine Pavilion at Brighton.
Related decoration features on a cabinet attributed to Frederick Crace and illustrated in M. Aldrich, The Craces: Royal Decorators, Brighton, 1990, p. 23, no. 1:12.

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