Lot 13
13
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT DRESSING-TABLE
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 1… Read more THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE MRS LIONEL MOORE SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS (LOTS 1-32)
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT DRESSING-TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO WRIGHT & ELWICK, CIRCA 1760

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT DRESSING-TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO WRIGHT & ELWICK, CIRCA 1760
The shaped rectangular top above five drawers with rocaille handles and a gadrooned lower edge, the kneehole with flowerhead-carved C-scroll brackets, on square legs with foliate C-scroll brackets, the handles original
33¼ in. (84.5 cm.) high; 49 in. (125 cm.) wide; 21½ in. (55 cm.) deep
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The mahogany dressing-table shares certain stylistic elements with works attributed to the Wakefield cabinet-makers Messrs. Wright and Elwick. The gadrooned lower edge to the frieze and the foliate brackets relate to similar features on a kneehole dressing-cabinet almost certainly supplied by Wright & Elwick to Sir Rowland Winn for Nostell Priory, Yorksire before 1767, and likewise its near-identical counterpart at Wentworth Woodhouse, sold Christie's, London, 8 July 1998, lot 70.
Two closely related breakfront dressing-tables in a private collection are also attributed to the same cabinet-makers.

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