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Lot Essay
The chest's stand is richly carved with a bubbled and scalloped cartouche amongst Roman foliage in the manner of a George II clothes-press attributed to the Clerkenwell cabinet-maker, Giles Grendey (d. 1780) (see R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p. 281, fig. 13). A cut-cornered chest, with this form of stand with serpentined legs richly carved with shells and terminating in volute scrolls, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 15 November 1991, lot 62.
Its 'picturesque' handles correspond to a design in an 18th Century metalworker's pattern book (T. Crom, An Eighteenth Century English Brass Hardware Catalgoue, 1994, p. 56).
Its 'picturesque' handles correspond to a design in an 18th Century metalworker's pattern book (T. Crom, An Eighteenth Century English Brass Hardware Catalgoue, 1994, p. 56).