CIRCA 1770

Details

A DUTCH BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY ARMOIRE
CIRCA 1770
The broken pediment and cornice with egg-and-dart and dentil mouldings above a pair of panelled doors each headed by swags of foliage and fruit flanked by canted angles enclosing a shelf and pair of drawers, the lower section with three drawers, paper label inscribed 'Fire/ Damaged/ ...Aug 1939' to reverse and another 'Bowman & Sons / 269/ Monk Bar, York'
102 in. (159 cm.) high; 76 in. (193 cm.) wide; 27 in. (69 cm.) deep

Provenance

Likely acquired by Frederick Howard (1748-1825), 5th Earl of Carlisle,
Castle Howard, York, Yorkshire; sold Sotheby's House sale, 11 November 1991, lot 149.

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Lot Essay

This fine Dutch Armoire was probably acquired by Frederick Howard (1748-1825), 5th Earl of Carlisle who undertook a project of updating Vanburgh's masterpiece Castle Howard at the end of the 18th century and also oversaw the long overdue completion of the West Wing in 1811 under the direction of Charles Heathcote Tatham. The interiors to which remained unfinished and therefore unfurnished upon the death of the previous architect Sir Thomas Robinson in 1777, thus prompting a buying spree.

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