Lot Essay
The canterbury, with fretted lyre-scrolled divisions, is supported by reeded stump feet in the fashion adopted around 1810 by firms such as Gillows of London and Lancaster.
Details
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CANTERBURY
The gadrooned moulded rectangular top with three pierced supports above a panelled drawer, on reeded tapering feet with sunk brass castors, the drawer with painted inventory label 'C19 FRN 2195 A'
23¼ in. (59 cm.) high; 31½ in. (80 cm.) wide; 17½ (44.5 cm.) deep
The gadrooned moulded rectangular top with three pierced supports above a panelled drawer, on reeded tapering feet with sunk brass castors, the drawer with painted inventory label 'C19 FRN 2195 A'
23¼ in. (59 cm.) high; 31½ in. (80 cm.) wide; 17½ (44.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
The M. Golder Will Trust, Lyegrove, near Badminton, Gloucestershire sold Christie's South Kensington house sale, 4 June 1997, lot 657.