A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST-OF-DRAWERS

CIRCA 1770

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST-OF-DRAWERS
CIRCA 1770
Of serpentine form, with a brushing slide over four graduated drawers on high arched bracket feet, the back with ivorine label stamped FRANK PARTRIDGE WORKS OF ART 26 KING STREET ST JAMES AND NEW YORK
33 in. (84 cm.) high, 39½ in. (100.5 cm.) wide, 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

With Frank Partridge, London.
The Estates of Ambassador David K.E. Bruce and Evangeline Bruce, Washington, D.C.
Acquired from Gerald Bland, New York, 2005.

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Lot Essay

The pattern for its 'poetic' handles, of pearled paterae festooned with beribboned laurels, also features in a contemporary metal-worker pattern-book (numbered 1842) (see N. Goodison, 'The Victoria and Albert Museum's Collection of Metal-Work Pattern Books,' Furniture History, 1975, fig. 22).

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