THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

細節

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CLOTHES-PRESS
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular moulded and dentilled cornice above a pair of panelled doors enclosing four shelves and a later brass hanging-rail, above two short and two long drawers, on bracket feet, lacking one slide, the handles apparently original, the inside of one door with ivorine label inscribed 'S. & H. JEWELL 131-2 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON W.C.1'
80½ in. (204.5 cm.) high; 48 in. (122 cm.) wide; 23¾ in. (60.5 cm.) deep

來源

Bought from S. & H. Jewell, 131-2 High Holborn, London.

注意事項

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.

拍品專文

A clothes-press of this general pattern with dentilled cornice and 'hollow-cornered' doors inset with paterae, was supplied to Ninian Home for Paxton House, Berwickshire, in 1774 by Thomas Chippendale at a cost of £12.12s. The latter encloses six slides lined with marbled paper, as was specified in Chippendale's 1774 bill (C. Gilbert, 'Chippendale Senior and Junior at Paxton 1774-1791', Connoisseur, August 1972, p. 261, fig. 14).

S. & H. Jewell, dealers in antique and reproduction furniture have traded from the Holborn area since the mid-19th century. They are presently based in Parker Street, south of High Holborn.