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J. H. Leigh, who had already made other purchases from Oakley since 1813, acquired the bookcase for Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire in 1819, when it was invoiced as 'An elegant Rosewood Commode with Chiffonier top and plate glass at the back' at a cost of £38.
The Stoneleigh bookcase, with trellis-railed doors and Grecian palm-flowered china-rail above a mirror-backed 'chiffonier', has reeded pilasters with palm-wrapped trusses in the early 19th century antique fashion favoured in particular by Gillow of London and Lancaster. The bookcase, with its Louis Quatorze 'boulle' inlay was executed by the Bond Street court cabinet-maker George Oakley (d. 1841), who received mention in 1807 by the German visitor P. A. Memnich as being, 'famous for goods of the latest fashion'; and considered, alongside Gillows, as one of London's 'chief makers and sellers' of furniture and upholstery (E. T. Joy, English Furniture 1800-1850, pp. 122 and 304).
The Stoneleigh bookcase, with trellis-railed doors and Grecian palm-flowered china-rail above a mirror-backed 'chiffonier', has reeded pilasters with palm-wrapped trusses in the early 19th century antique fashion favoured in particular by Gillow of London and Lancaster. The bookcase, with its Louis Quatorze 'boulle' inlay was executed by the Bond Street court cabinet-maker George Oakley (d. 1841), who received mention in 1807 by the German visitor P. A. Memnich as being, 'famous for goods of the latest fashion'; and considered, alongside Gillows, as one of London's 'chief makers and sellers' of furniture and upholstery (E. T. Joy, English Furniture 1800-1850, pp. 122 and 304).