EARLY 19TH CENTURY, WITH LATER TOP

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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY SIDE CABINET**
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, WITH LATER TOP
Line-inlaid overall, the later rectangular crossbanded top with fan spandrels, above a plain frieze and a pair of pleated silk panelled doors with laurel garlands over crossed arrows, enclosing two adjustable shelves, with a pair of simulated verde antico scagliola columns, on a plinth base, with remains of paper label on the reverse with the Royal arms
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 50¼ in. (128 cm.) wide; 13¾ in. (35 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The Grecian plinth-supported 'commode' book-cabinet, enriched with marble-scagliola and laurel-wreathed doors, is designed in the antique French manner popularised by S. Jamar, who styled himself 'Cabinet-Maker to Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland' and boasted that his Gerrard Street manufactory established in 1819 produced furniture 'equal to any made in Paris' (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, pp. 273-280). Similar scagliola pillars also feature on a secretaire-bookcase embellished with 'buhl' marquetry and bearing the signature of Thomas, Fisher Street, Red Lion Street, sold Christie's, New York, 17 October 2003, lot 237. The signature is possibly that of [Richard] Thomas, ['furniture printer'] of Red Lion Street. Another brass-inlaid cabinet of this form was sold Christie's, London, 26 January 2006, lot 147.

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