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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT TABERNACLE
The top with a rectangular plinth, on a spreading roof with foliate and strapwork decoration and blind-fret and dentil-carved frieze, concealing a slide, enclosed by a foliate ogee-arched panel door, flanked by pilaster stiles hung with fruit and flowers, with spandrels inset with reverse painting of women's heads, with similarly decorated sides, on a later plinth base
16¼in. (41.5cm.) wide, 22½in. (57cm.) high, 13½in. (34cm.) deep
This cabinet's triumphal arch facade of paired, Ionic hermed and flower festooned pilasters with central ogival arched compartment and cherub painted spandrels, reflects the picturesque combination of styles of the George II period, as popularised by the three-editions of Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, 1754-63. Its swept and acanthus-wrapped dome serves as an altar pedestal and resembles "Terms for Busto's etc,", illustrated in the 3rd edition of 1763, pl. CXLVII
The Gothic compartment, cusped enrichements and band of fretted quatrefoil-ribbon guilloche recalL the ornament of a portrait-frame designed in the 1750s for the Countess of Pomfret's Arlington Street house (see: A Coleridge Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 159)
The top with a rectangular plinth, on a spreading roof with foliate and strapwork decoration and blind-fret and dentil-carved frieze, concealing a slide, enclosed by a foliate ogee-arched panel door, flanked by pilaster stiles hung with fruit and flowers, with spandrels inset with reverse painting of women's heads, with similarly decorated sides, on a later plinth base
16¼in. (41.5cm.) wide, 22½in. (57cm.) high, 13½in. (34cm.) deep
This cabinet's triumphal arch facade of paired, Ionic hermed and flower festooned pilasters with central ogival arched compartment and cherub painted spandrels, reflects the picturesque combination of styles of the George II period, as popularised by the three-editions of Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, 1754-63. Its swept and acanthus-wrapped dome serves as an altar pedestal and resembles "Terms for Busto's etc,", illustrated in the 3rd edition of 1763, pl. CXLVII
The Gothic compartment, cusped enrichements and band of fretted quatrefoil-ribbon guilloche recalL the ornament of a portrait-frame designed in the 1750s for the Countess of Pomfret's Arlington Street house (see: A Coleridge Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 159)