THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Details

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE-BOOKCASE,
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
107cm. (272cm.) high, 43½in. (110.5cm.) wide, 25¼in. (64cm.) deep

Provenance

The Property of the executors of the late Sir Emmanuel Kaye C.B.E., Christie's King Street 20 September 2001, lot 306
Dr Giorgio Fassio, villa Souleiadou, Route du Phare, St. Jean Cap Ferrat, France.
Bought from Mallett, London, 21 August 1964.

Lot Essay

The secretaire with its gothic pointed-arch cornice rising from acanthus-wrapped trusses derives from a 'Lady Desk' pattern attributed to John Mayhew and illustrated in a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-Makers etc., Household Furniture, pt. II, published by Robert Sayer in 1764/5 (C. Gilbert, Genteel Household Furniture, Ilkley, 1978, pl. 53).

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