LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY SATINWOOD CLOTHES-PRESS
LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Crossbanded overall in rosewood, the rectangular cornice above a plain frieze and a pair of panelled doors enclosing two slides with mahogany fronts, above two short and two long drawers, on square tapering feet, the handles late 18th century and associated, the reverse inscribed in chalk with Christie's stock number 'BD523', the underside of one drawer stencilled '14292', the drawers and slides with convex quarter-fillets
81½ in. (207 cm.) high; 50½ in. (128 cm.) wide; 23¼ in. (59 cm.) deep

Provenance

Mr & Mrs Roger Vestey, Park Gate House, Ham Common, Surrey; Christie's, London, 19 June 1980, lot 76.

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Lot Essay

A pair of similarly 'Roman' fashioned mahogany and satinwood clothes-presses was supplied to Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (d. 1825) for Castle Howard, Yorkshire. They were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 15 June 2000, lot 115, when they were catalogued as possibly by John Linnell. This was based on the design of another of Castle Howard's richly-figured and inlaid clothes-presses, also of a similar form, and likely to have provided the prototype (H. Hayward & P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London, 1980, vol. II, fig. 140).

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