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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD AND EBONY SIDE CABINET
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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD AND EBONY SIDE CABINET

IN THE MANNER OF GEORGE OAKLEY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD AND EBONY SIDE CABINET
IN THE MANNER OF GEORGE OAKLEY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The shaped crossbanded top with a detachable superstructure, with a pierced brass gallery, with two shelves at each side flanked by scrolled supports, the centre section with two brass grilles and pale yellow silk-velvet backing enclosing four adjustable mahogany shelves, on later bun feet, the back edge cut for a dado rail, minor losses to the brass inlay
40¾ in. (103.5 cm.) high; 65¼ in. (165.5 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

This golden trellis-railed commode or book-cabinet with 'china-shelf' corner-cabinets, flanked by scrolled Roman-truss pilasters, is conceived in the early 19th century French/antique manner. With its exotic ribbon banding of 'Grecian' ebony, and its Louis Quatorze 'boulle' inlay, it relates in particular to the work of the Bond Street court cabinet-maker George Oakley (d.1841), who was noted by a visitor to London in 1807 as 'famous for goods of the latest fashion', and was considered alongside Gillows, as one of London's 'chief makers and sellers' of furniture and upholstery (E.T. Joy, English Furniture 1800-1850, London 1977, p.122 and 304). In 1819 Oakley supplied a related 'commode with Chiffonier top' for Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire (G. Beard and C. Gilbert (eds), Dictionary of English Furniture Makers: 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p.660).

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