CIRCA 1715-20

Details

A GEORGE I WALNUT CABINET
CIRCA 1715-20
With cavetto cornice above a pair of quarter-veneered doors enclosing an arrangement of twelve drawers around a central cupboard enclosing four drawers, the lower section with a pair of doors enclosing five sliding shelves, one original, on bracket feet, inscribed in pencil 'sides 63¼ in. long', one later shelf with label inscribed THIS SHELF WAS MADE JUNE 1925 FROM BOARDS OF AN ATLANTIC CEDAR WHICH GREW NEAR WICHET GATE AT POOL YARD END OF THE AVENUE & DIED & WAS CUT UP MORE THAN A YEAR AGO, the handles replaced
79 in. (201 cm.) high; 43 in. (109 cm.) wide; 22¾ in. (58 cm.) deep

Provenance

Possibly supplied to Henry Bowes Howard, 4th Earl of Berkshire and 11 Earl of Suffolk (d.1757), Elford Hall, Staffordshire, and by descent to The Hon. Mary Howard (d.1877) and presumably by descent to
Francis Howard Paget and almost certainly by descent to
Mrs Howard Paget.
Probably sold Sotheby's, London, 21-22 March 1946.
Charles Woolett & Son, The Stratford Galleries, 59 & 61 Wigmore Street, London, 1946.

Literature

Apollo, April 1946 (Trade advertisement for Charles Woollett & Son).

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Lot Essay

Elford Hall, near Tamworth in Staffordshire, was home of a branch of the Howard family, Earls of Suffolk and Berkshire, and before them of the Bowes family. Described in 1851 as 'a handsome mansion, erected about 1758', it was then the home of the Hon. Mary Howard who lived to be 93. The house and estate were left to the City of Birmingham in the 1930s and the house demolished soon after the war.

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