IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM VILE

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AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY CABINET
In the manner of William Vile
Surmounted by a coronet with a fielded panel open superstructure with foliate scroll cabochon cresting and fret-pierced sides with scroll blind fret key frieze above and centred by a tablet with ribbon-tied draperies above a shelved interior with a pair of blind-fret glazed panel doors, the crossbanded bombe sided lower part with a gadrooned edge containing two short and three long drawers with foliate scroll-carved apron with scroll-decorated ogee bracket feet
88in. (224cm.) high, 36in. (91.5cm.) wide, 17in. (43.5cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

With similarities to a secretaire cabinet supplied by William Vile in 1762 for Queen Charlotte's apartments in St James's Palace and illustrated in 'Buckingham Palace: Its Furniture, Decoration and History' by H. Clifford Smith, publ. Country Life 1930, figs. 62 and 63.

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