CIRCA 1765

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AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY CELLARET
CIRCA 1765
Of square canted form, with gadrooned top moulding above panelled sides with foliate paterae corners, the canted sides fluted, with copper-lined interior, on a stand with shaped foliate-carved apron and foliate trellis ground, on cabriole legs and scrolled feet, wooden castors, the handles replaced; together with a late 20th century removable mahogany stand with green baize-lined top to insert inside to make a table
24¾ in. (63 cm.) high; 13 in. (33 cm.) square

Provenance

Frederick Howard Reed, Esq. (+), 3 Berkeley House, Hay Hill, London, W1; sold Christie's, London, 16 November 1955, lot 195, where bought by the father of the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The gadrooned edge and 'French' hollow-cornered tablets feature in patterns for 'Tea Kettle Stands' issued in Mayhew and Ince's Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, pl. 14.
A pattern for a related wine-bottle cistern or 'Gardevine' [sic], with patera-filled hollow-cornered tablets is in the 1768 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of Lancaster (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 181).
The motif of flowered tablets also appears on a bookcase attributed to the court cabinet-maker William Vile and dated to around 1760 (R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, rev. ed., 1955, fig. 59).
Lot 51 in this sale was also in the Frederick Howard Reed collection.

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