19TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF LARGE MAHOGANY BOOKCASES
19th Century
Each with central double-scroll cresting edged with fluting and centred with paterae, flanking a pierced-anthemia finial, with dentilled breakfront cornice and fluted frieze divided by paterae, above two pairs of doors with fluted edges and geometric glazing, each enclosing seven shelves, divided by panelled pilasters headed by foliate volutes, the base with four fielded panelled doors, each enclosing a shelf, on a plinth base
157¼ in. (399.5 cm.) high; 167 in. (424 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep (2)
19th Century
Each with central double-scroll cresting edged with fluting and centred with paterae, flanking a pierced-anthemia finial, with dentilled breakfront cornice and fluted frieze divided by paterae, above two pairs of doors with fluted edges and geometric glazing, each enclosing seven shelves, divided by panelled pilasters headed by foliate volutes, the base with four fielded panelled doors, each enclosing a shelf, on a plinth base
157¼ in. (399.5 cm.) high; 167 in. (424 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Dr. Jules C. Stein.
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 17 October 1987, lot 151 (115,500).
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 17 October 1987, lot 151 (
Literature
C. Musgrave, Regency Furniture 1800-1830, London, 1961, pp. 82-3, pl. 69.
Exhibited
The White House, the private Sitting-Room (according to a saleroom notice at the time of their sale in 1987).