FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE I WALNUT TALLBOY
FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The upper part with moulded cornice and fitted with three short and three long feather-strung and banded drawers between fluted canted angles, with a slide and three drawers below, the lower drawer with an inlaid sunburst, on bracket feet, the back plates to the top drawers incomplete, the 'S' pattern locks later
72½ in. (184 cm.) high; 42½ in. (108 cm.) wide; 21¾ in. (55.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The clothes-chest form, with Roman antique-fluted pilasters and a concealed dressing/writing slide, relates to that of a mahogany chest bearing the label adopted in the 1740s by the St.Paul's Church Yard firm of Elizabeth Bell & Son (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, fig. 77). Bell's neighbour, Daniel Wild, also labelled a related flute-enriched chest of marble-figured walnut, whose base was likewise hollowed with a niche displaying a Roman mosaiced inlay of a rising golden sun (ibid., p. 469, fig. 951).

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