CIRCA 1790

Details

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD CROSSBANDED SIDEBOARD
CIRCA 1790
The shaped rectangular top of serpentine outline above a central frieze drawer flanked by a cellaret drawer and cupboard, and further pot cupboard to the rear left hand side, the fluted shaped apron separated by anthemion and husk-pendant carved pilasters on fluted square tapering legs with block feet, now lacking gallery rail, the left hand cupboard formerly fitted as a short cellaret drawer
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 76 in. (193 cm.) wide; 32 in. (81 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired by Sir Sydney Barratt from Leonard Kerridge, London, June 1927 for Summerhill, Staffordshire and later installed at Crowe Hall, Bath, 1961 and by descent.

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Lot Essay

This sideboard, with its fluted apron and husk trailed frieze, shares much in common with an apparent pair of sideboards possibly executed in the same workshop. One was sold from the collection of Frederick Behrens, Esq. and H.J. Joel, Esq. at Christie's London on 17 April 1980, lot 84 and is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., London, 1954, vol. III, p. 34, fig. 27. The other was sold from the Collection of Simon Sainsbury, Christie's London, 18 June 2008, lot 94 (£49,250).

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