Lot Essay
A related design for this pattern of 'low wardrobe' between chest of drawers features in Gillow's Estimate Sketch Book, and the firm supplied similar wardrobes for the bedroom apartments at Tatton Park, Cheshire created by the architect Lewis Wyatt (d.1853) (N. Goodison & J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park', Furniture History, 1970, pp. 1-39, pls.11A, 10A and 10B).
Another example of the same inverted breakfront form as the present lot, and bearing the stamp of Johnstone Jeanes & Co, 67 New Bond St., London, was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 7 February 1991.
Another example of the same inverted breakfront form as the present lot, and bearing the stamp of Johnstone Jeanes & Co, 67 New Bond St., London, was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 7 February 1991.