拍品專文
With its milles-raies or striated panels and parcel-gilt 'pearled' decoration, this side cabinet reflects the Louis XVI taste promoted by the architect Henry Holland at Southill, Bedfordshire circa 1800. Amongst the principal exponent's of 'Elegant Parisian Furniture' during the Regency period was the firm established by John McLean (d.1825) and Sons in Pancras Street, and the latter displayed not only striated panels and 'pearled' parcel-gilt borders, but also the same distinctive pierced brass gallery on a cheveret table and labelled bonheur du jour illustrated in S. Redburn, 'John McLean and Son', Furniture History, 1978, vol. XIV, pls. 37b and 38b.
A closely related pair of open side cabinets from the collection of Arthur Hill-Trevor, 2nd Viscount Dungannon (d. 1837) of Brynkinalt, Denbighshire, was advertised by M. Harris and Sons in The Connoisseur, June 1967, whilst a further similar pair of bookcases, supplied to the Bankes family for either Kingston Lacy, Dorset or their London house in Palace Yard, was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 29 March 1984, lot 164.
A closely related pair of open side cabinets from the collection of Arthur Hill-Trevor, 2nd Viscount Dungannon (d. 1837) of Brynkinalt, Denbighshire, was advertised by M. Harris and Sons in The Connoisseur, June 1967, whilst a further similar pair of bookcases, supplied to the Bankes family for either Kingston Lacy, Dorset or their London house in Palace Yard, was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 29 March 1984, lot 164.