MID-18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY PREVIOUSLY FITTED

Name: A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE
Brand: MID-18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY PREVIOUSLY FITTED
Price: 24000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 30,240

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USD 20,000 - USD 40,000

Closed: 27 Mar 2024

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE

MID-18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY PREVIOUSLY FITTED

Price Realised USD 30,240

Closed: 27 Mar 2024

Price Realised USD 30,240

Closed: 27 Mar 2024

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The lappeted and dentilled cornice with egg-and-shell border above a Greek-key frieze with flowerhead border, above a pair of geometrically-glazed doors with ribbon-and-rosette carved astragals, each enclosing four adjustable shelves, flanked on each side by a conforming glazed door enclosing four adjustable shelves and a door enclosing one shelf, on a plinth base with ribbon-and-rosette carved border, later Bramah & Co. locks and later hinges, the previously projecting side returns of the top section now reduced in depth
114 in. (290 cm.) high; 163 in. (414 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep

Property from the Estate of HRH The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, KG, KT, KP; Christie's, London, 26-27 January 2006, lot 232.

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Lot Essay

The bookcase's 'Roman mosaic' glazing patterned as cut-cornered tablets and lozenged compartments, corresponds to a pattern invented by the St. Martin’s Lane cabinet-maker Thomas Chippendale (d.1779) in his celebrated 1754 pattern-book, (pl.125) and later reissued in the third edition of the , published in 1762 (pl. 101). The Grecian ribbon-fret cut at the cornice reflects the 'Antique' style popularized around 1760 by James 'Athenian' Stuart (d.1788), artist, architect and author of , 1762. See , D.Watkin, James 'Athenian' Stuart, London, 1982, fig 37.