Lot 224
224
ANOTHER PROPERTY
A SET OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY STEPS with two flights of steps with moulded rail and baluster banisters divided by stop-fluted columns above pierced risers carved with C-scrolls and pierced on the landings with lozenges and quatrefoils on cluster-column supports headed by blind fretwork and joined by waved pierced stretchers on casters, one part of one banister lacking, four banisters replaced, lacking some pieces of moulding and applied fretowrk, with break to one support and to rail on top landing

Details
A SET OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY STEPS with two flights of steps with moulded rail and baluster banisters divided by stop-fluted columns above pierced risers carved with C-scrolls and pierced on the landings with lozenges and quatrefoils on cluster-column supports headed by blind fretwork and joined by waved pierced stretchers on casters, one part of one banister lacking, four banisters replaced, lacking some pieces of moulding and applied fretowrk, with break to one support and to rail on top landing
67in. (170cm.) wide; 123in. (312½cm.) high; 48in. (122 cm.) deep
Provenance
The Lord Brownlow, Belton House, Lincolnshire, Christie's house sale, 30 April - 2 May 1984, lot 113

Lot Essay

A similarly ambitious library steps (though without the return flight), appears as Plate XXII in Ince & Mayhew, The Universale System, 1762. Another example on this imposing scale is at Althorp, Northamptonshire

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