A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE-CABINET

Various Properties

细节

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE-CABINET

The rectangular top with a superstructure of two shelves with Chinese pailing and surmounted by urn finials, the fall-front simulated as two doors and enclosing a fitted interior with mahogany-lined drawers and green baize-lined writing-surface above two short and three long drawers and bracket feet with leather castors, inscribed in black ink Foulical, the top possibly replaced
25in. (63.5cm.) wide; 63in. (160.5cm.) high; 12½in. (32cm.) deep

拍品专文

A very similar cabinet, formerly at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, vol. I, p. 152, fig. 60. Another from the collection of James Thursby-Pelham, Esq., is illustrated in O. Brackett, English Furniture Illustrated, rev. ed., London, 1950, pl. CLXXV.
A pair of similar cabinets, with doors in place of the secretaire-drawers, were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 17 November 1994, lot 142