Lot 85
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY KNEEHOLE DRESSING-TABLE
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY KNEEHOLE DRESSING-TABLE

IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY KNEEHOLE DRESSING-TABLE
IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The shaped rectangular top above a central frieze drawer flanked by three graduated frieze drawers around a kneehole enclosing a panelled door, on cabriole legs, the handles replaced, the feet spliced
34½ in. (87.5 cm.) high; 44¼ in. (112.5) cm. wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep
Provenance
With Jeremy Ltd.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

This George III French-fashioned pier-commode-table, with drawer-nests and 'night-table' pot-cupboard, has its top elegantly serpentined and hollowed in cupid-bow form in the manner of a 1760 table pattern in Thomas Chippendale's, Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd ed., 1762, pl. 72. Reeds band the top and the drawers, while those framing the door tablet are hollow-cornered in a French manner illustrated in the 1st edition of Chippendale's Director, 1754. Chippendale also adopted this elegant leg form, with serpentined and tapering truss-scrolls, for a dressing-table supplied to Rowland Winn, for Nostell Priory, Yorkshire in the early 1770s (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, fig. 421).

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