EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BOWFRONT SIDE CABINET
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With moulded edge above three simulated drawers and two drawers, with open space below with a shelf, on ormolu paw feet, the rear legs with brass castors, the front feet with adjustable height screw, the reverse inscribed in chalk '161', the handles apparently original
33¼ in. (84.5 cm.) high; 46 in. (117 cm.) wide; 10½ in. (27 cm.) deep

Provenance

Mrs. Dorothy Hart, Villa Millbrook, Jersey.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 November 1987, lot 46.

Literature

C. Musgrave, 'At the Villa Millbrook - 1', Connoisseur, June 1965, p. 76, fig. 9.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Mrs. Dorothy Hart (d. 1987) extended the superb collection of English furniture begun by her husband Geoffrey Hart. They were advised by the furniture historian R. W. Symonds in many of their purchases. After Geoffrey Hart's premature death in 1946, Mrs. Hart moved first to Hyde Park Gardens and then to the Villa Millbrook, St Lawrence, Jersey where her collection of English and French furniture and mainly Flemish and Dutch 17th century Old Master Pictures was elegantly displayed and recorded in the Clifford Musgrave's two articles in Connoisseur.

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