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George VI's bookcase A Regency simulated rosewood and brass-mounted low breakfront bookcase

CIRCA 1820, REDECORATED, LACKING DOORS

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George VI's bookcase
A Regency simulated rosewood and brass-mounted low breakfront bookcase
Circa 1820, redecorated, lacking doors
With a carrera marble top above adjustable shelves, the reverse with a printed paper label 'GRV. Buckingham Palace. L.C.D' and a printed Private Property paper label with the initial 'A' below a coronet, one side of side moulding missing, previously fitted with doors, with a later paper property label for Princess Margaret
37½ in. (95 cm.) high; 63 in. (160 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

George V (1865-1936), Buckingham Palace, London (Lord Chamberlain's
Department).
George VI (1895-1952) when Prince Albert, Duke of York.

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Lot Essay

The marble-topped and plinth-supported bookcase, japanned in trompe l'oeil 'Grecian' black-figured rosewood, is designed in the early l9th century antique fashion promoted by architects such as Lewis Wyatt (d.1853), who served from 1804 in George III's architectural Board of Ordnance. This form of reed-enriched pilaster, described as 'neat moulded', was much favoured by firms such as Gillow of London and Lancaster and featured on one of their clothes-presses supplied about 1820 for Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire (sold Christie's, London, 25 November 2004, lot. 206) .
Its label was applied by the Lord Chamberlain's Department, who held responsibility for the furnishings of Buckingham Palace.

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