CIRCA 1790 - 1800

Details

A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY GOTHIC SECRETAIRE-BOOKCASE
CIRCA 1790 - 1800
The upper section with astragal-glazed doors enclosing four shelves, the fall-front with fitted interior above a pair of doors enclosing a removable shelf, on honey-pot feet
94 in. (239 cm.) high; 38 ¼ in. (97 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep

Provenance

Michael Lipitch Antiques, London, sold, Christie's, London, 4 October 2001, lot 10.

Special notice

This Lot is transferred to an offsite warehouse ‘Cadogan Tate’ at the close of business on the day of the sale. We will give you 2 weeks free storage from the date of the sale and after that point charges apply. All other lots will be held at Christie''s South Kensington until 5pm the fifth Friday after the sale. It will then be transferred to Cadogan Tate.

Lot Essay

The Elizabethan-style cabinet's gothic-arched glazing pattern relates to ones issued in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, 1793, pl. 41, and in The Cabinet-Maker's London Book of Prices, 2nd ed., 1793, pl. 16, no. 1. The cluster-columned pilasters are also supported on stump feet that are bobbin-turned in the Elizabethan fashion, introduced around 1800. Similar feet and the same cut-cornered moulding featured on a clothes-press sold Christie's, London, 19 September 2002, lot 164 (£3,585 including premium).

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