Lot 36
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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, GONCALO ALVES AND PADOUK-CROSSBANDED BREAKFRONT LIBRARY BOOKCASE
Prospective purchasers are advised that several co… Read more THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, GONCALO ALVES AND PADOUK-CROSSBANDED BREAKFRONT LIBRARY BOOKCASE

CIRCA 1770

Details
A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, GONCALO ALVES AND PADOUK-CROSSBANDED BREAKFRONT LIBRARY BOOKCASE
CIRCA 1770
With a swan neck pediment above a pendant-carved frieze, the astragal glazed doors enclosing a moiré silk-lined interior with thirteen adjustable shelves, the base with a secretaire drawer fitted with an arrangement of ivory-handled drawers above a pair of doors enclosing three slides, flanked on each side by a single drawer above a door enclosing four further satinwood fronted drawers on a plinth base, with S-pattern locks, stamped on the top 'JOHN WATSON, NEW OXFORD ST, WC'
111 ¼ in. (283 cm.) high; 98 ½ in. (250 cm.) wide; 25 ½ in. (65 cm.) deep
Provenance
Acquired from Mallett, London, before 1956 and thence in a private collection
Special notice
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Lot Essay

John Watson is listed in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700 - 1830, Leeds , 1996, p. 54, and p.938, fig. 937. Gilbert speculates that Watson was probably a Victorian furniture broker who stamped his stock.

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