A GEORGE II WALNUT CABINET-ON STAND

IN THE MANNER OF GILES GRENDEY, POSSIBLY MID-18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE II WALNUT CABINET-ON STAND
IN THE MANNER OF GILES GRENDEY, POSSIBLY MID-18TH CENTURY
Of breakfront-form, the swan's neck pediment over a fretwork frieze and three mirrored doors enclosing adjustable shelves above three drawers, the base with three drawers on foliate-carved cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet, later brasses, previously with glazing bars
98 in. (249 cm.) high, 61 ½ in. (156 cm.) wide, 20 ½ in. (52 cm.) deep

Provenance

With M. Harris & Sons, London, circa 1920s.
Percival D. Griffiths, Esq., Sandridgebury, St. Albans, Hertfordshire.
The Late Percival D. Griffiths, Esq.; Christie's, London, 10 May 1939, lot 255 (to 'VF').
With Frank Partridge, London and New York.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.

Literature

M. Harris & Sons, A Catalogue and Index of Old Furniture and Works of Art, part II, n.d. (circa 1920s), p. 177.
R.W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, London, 1929, pp. 102, 105, 107, figs. 62-63, diag. 5c.
J. de Serre, 'The Percival D. Griffiths Collection', Country Life, 15 April 1939, p. 44, fig. 2.
'European Antiques in an American Collection', The Magazine Antiques, February 1948, p. 112, frontispiece.
Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 244-245, figs. 285-286, p. 59.

Descriptif du lot

When this cabinet illustrated by M. Harris and Sons in their catalogue of the late 1920s it featured glazed doors (and there is evidence of the glazing bars). Griffiths presumably purchased the piece from Harris and incorporated the present mirrored doors which appear in the 1929 publication as well as his 1939 sale catalogue. Judge Untermyer prized the lots in his collection which shared the illustrious Percival Griffiths provenance.

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