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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD SIDE CABINET
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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD SIDE CABINET

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD SIDE CABINET
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular later top with ropetwist edge above a foliage-inlaid frieze and a pair of glazed doors backed with pleated green silk enclosing a shelf, between scagliola columns simulating Mona marble, on a plinth base, probably originally with a marble top
37¼ in. (94.5 cm.) high; 38½ in. (97.5 cm.) wide; 16½ in. (42 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The Grecian plinth-supported 'commode' book-cabinet, enriched with boulle-inlay and marble-scagliola, is designed in the Regency 'Louis Quatorze' fashion popularised by S. Jamar, who styled himself 'Cabinet-Maker to Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland' and boasted that his Gerrard Street manufactory established in 1819 produced furniture 'equal to any made in Paris' (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, pp. 273-280). The signature, possibly that of [Richard] Thomas, ['furniture printer'] of Red Lion Street has been recorded on a related scagliola-pillared cabinet sold Christie's, New York, 17 October 2003, lot 237.

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