BASICALLY 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY RECONSTRUCTED

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CABINET
BASICALLY 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY RECONSTRUCTED
With Chinese-carved cresting centred by a Chinaman seated in a garden pavilion above a pair of mirrored doors with moulded astragals, enclosing an adjustable shelf with a base section with carved moulded corners above six short drawers, on a pierced Chinese paling plinth
100¾ in. (256 cm.) high; 63 in. (160 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Lowndes family, The Bury (now known as Lowndes Park), Chesham, Buckinghamshire.
Bought from Phillips of Hitchin Ltd., Hertfordshire in 1955.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 12th October, 1996, lot 269 ($16,100).

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve. No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The bookcase's mosaiced glazing, in octagon and lozenged compartments, relates to a pattern incorporated in a 'Gothic Library Book-Case' issued in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director, 1754 (pl. 75). Chippendale considered his fretted, pinnacled and pagoda-canopied design as, 'perhaps one of the best of its kind, and would give me great pleasure to see it executed, as I doubt not to its making an exceeding genteel and grand appearance'.

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