MID-18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY BUREAU-CABINET
MID-18TH CENTURY
With a serpentine-mirror-panelled door enclosing three adjustable shelves below a dentilled broken pediment, the lower section with a hinged slope enclosing a fitted interior with six small drawers, two pigeon-holes and a central cupboard, above four graduated drawers, on ogee bracket feet, restoration to the cornice
84½ in. (215 cm.) high; 35 in. (89 cm.) wide; 21¾ in. (56 cm.) deep

Provenance

Bought from Thorpe & Foster, Dorking, Surrey, 7 December 1985.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The temple-pedimented cabinet's mirrored door is serpentined in the George II French 'picturesque' manner, as adopted in the 1740s by the Clerkenwell cabinet-maker Giles Grendey (d. 1780) ( C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, fig. 433).

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