THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHINA CABINET-ON-STAND
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular top with three-quarter fretwork gallery with later urn finials, above a cavetto-moulded frieze with egg-and-dart moulding and a pair of geometrically-glazed doors enclosing two later glass shelves and a silk-lined interior, flanked by recessed bevelled mirror panels with fretwork, the lower section with three mahogany-lined drawers, the central drawer with a slide, on square blind-fret legs headed by pierced angle-brackets, the handles replaced
92 in. (234 cm.) high; 48¾ in. (124 cm.) wide; 20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Bought from Herzog, Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, 1975 and by descent to the present owner.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Related 'China-Case' patterns were published in Thomas Chippendale's, Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754 (3rd ed. 1762). This cabinet's mosaiced glazing pattern, incorporating flowered quatrefoils amongst lozenge-trellis, reflects contemporary Chinese taste, as also featured in patterns for palings and gates issued in E. Hoppus, The Gentleman and Builder's Repository, 1760 (pls. 86 and 89). Its serpentined handle pattern, with embossed and scalloped cartouche, was also adopted for a bookcase manufactured by Chippendale in 1759 with a glazing pattern he had published in his 1754 Director (pl. 104) (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, fig. 63).

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