A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III SIMULATED-ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT CORNER CUPBOARDS

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A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III SIMULATED-ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT CORNER CUPBOARDS
Each with a later bowfronted pink marble top above a frieze centred by a foliage-decorated tablet, flanked on each side by a lozenge panel with a laurel wreath, above three shelves with fluted column supports, on ring-turned slender toupie feet, the decoration refreshed, one with printed depository label to the reverse 'WHITE & CO. LTD., ...WINCHESTER, Southampton London Portsmouth and Bournemouth' and stamped in ink 'MARTIN COOPER', later back feet
38½ in. (98 cm.) high; 31½ in. (79 cm.) wide; 21¼ in. (54 cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

A closely related pair of corner-cabinets, almost certainly supplied to William, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (d. 1805) for Lansdowne House, Piccadilly, are now at Bowood House, Wiltshire. Possibly supplied under the direction of the architect George Dance (d. 1825), the latter were probably conceived to harmonise with the Lansdowne House chairs (lot 71).

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