拍品专文
This elegant bookcase pattern, invented around 1780, was popularised by Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. A golden satinwood chest-of-drawers, ribbon-banded in 'purplewood' and with the same patterned feet featured in the 1789 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillow of London and Lancaster (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800; Royston, 1995, fig. 118).