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    9 March 2000

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    • A GEORGE III SATINWOOD BOWFRON
    Lot 84

    A GEORGE III SATINWOOD BOWFRONT CHEST

    Price realised

    GBP 6,325

    Estimate

    GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000

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    A GEORGE III SATINWOOD BOWFRONT CHEST
    The moulded top cross-banded in rosewood with boxwood and ebonised lines, above a slide and three cedar-lined graduated long drawers, with ivory escutcheons, on bracket feet, restorations
    32½ in. (82.5 cm.) high; 36¼ in. (92 cm.) wide; 22½ in. (57 cm.) wide

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    Lot Essay

    Related patterns for 'Dressing Drawers', with eliptical fronts and Grecian-scrolled feet, were published in Messrs A. Hepplewhite and Co. The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pl. 76.
    A similar richly-veneered satinwood chest, with ivory escutchons was sold from The Edward James Collection, West Dean Park, Christie's house sale, 2, 3 and 6 June 1986, lot 424.

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