Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD
Fine Furniture and Objects
Auctioneer: The Pedestal Location: Hertfordshire
Contact: Tel: 0207 281 2790
Date: 14th March 2017 Time: 2:00PM
Details: Viewing:
Saturday 11th March 11am to 4pm
Sunday 12th March 11am to 4pm
Monday 13th March 9am to 5pm
Tuesday 14th March 9am to 12pm
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Auction Lots - Page 1
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image... A William & Mary olive oyster veneered, walnut and ash banded chest on stand
The rectangular moulded top inlaid within an arced banding above two short and two long drawers, the stand with moulded edge above one long drawer on spirally turned legs, joined by a flattened shaped apron, on bun feet, 93cm wide, 58cm deep, 117cm high.
£5,000-£7,000
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Click to view full image... A William & Mary oak 'Master's' open armchair
The shaped toprail above a panelled rectangular splat flanked by turned split bobbins above downswept arms, on a boarded seat and baluster and block turned legs joined by a turned fascia stretcher and double side stretchers, feet re-tipped, 65cm wide, 45cm deep, 131cm high.
£1,000-£1,500
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image... A William & Mary oak side table
The rectangular moulded top above a frieze drawer, on baluster ring turned legs, joined by a wavy 'X' stretcher, on bun feet, 89cm wide, 57cm deep, 71cm high.
£1,000-£1,500
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image... A small early 18th century walnut double gateleg table
The oval top above a frieze drawer on turned legs joined by moulded stretchers, on turned feet, 86cm wide, 66cm deep, 70cm high.
£600-£800
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image...Click to view full image... A rare George I walnut, crossbanded and featherbanded child's bureau on a base of a slightly later date
The rectangular top above a sloping fall enclosing four pigeonholes, a thin tray drawer and two short and one long drawer flanked by three shaped stepped drawers to each side; above a long drawer, the George II walnut and crossbanded base inlaid with boxwood lines, the moulded edge above two long drawers on later turned feet, 49cm wide, 35cm deep, 64cm high.
£4,000-£6,000
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Click to view full image... A large William & Mary walnut oyster veneered & sycamore banded lace box
The rectangular hinged lid inlaid with concentric circles, on a moulded plinth base, 48cm wide, 48cm deep, 12cm high.
£400-£600
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Click to view full image... A William & Mary walnut and sycamore marquetry lace box
With ash mouldings, the hinged rectangular lid inlaid with strapwork and scrolling leaf marquetry, with similarly inlaid sides, 43cm wide, 34cm deep, 11cm high.
£400-£600
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Click to view full image... A small William & Mary olivewood oyster veneered mirror
The later rectangular bevelled plate within a cushion and moulded frame, 54cm high, 50cm wide.
£1,200-£1,800
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Click to view full image... A large William & Mary walnut oyster veneered mirror
The rectangular later plate within a moulded slip and cushion frame, 81cm high, 69cm wide.
£2,500-£3,500
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image... A 19th century William & Mary style walnut, floral marquetry and parcel gilt centre table
The rectangular moulded edge top decorated with a floral filled classical urn and floral marquetry spandrels to each corner, above a pair of frieze drawers, on spiral turned legs and acanthus carved terminus joined by a wavy marquetry flattened stretcher on acanthus scroll feet, 120cm wide, 87cm deep, 81cm high.
£3,000-£4,000
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Click to view full image... Miniature Furniture: A mid 18th century yew chest
The rectangular moulded top above two short and three long graduated drawers on ogee bracket feet, 37cm wide, 30cm deep, 41cm high.
£800-£1,200
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Click to view full image... A William & Mary style walnut stool
The square stuff-over top on slender turned bulbous legs joined by a shaped X-stretcher on turned bun feet, 46cm wide, 46cm deep, 47cm high.
£300-£500
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Click to view full image... A late 17th century olive oyster veneered and gilt brass repoussé domed coffer
Inlaid with ebonised lines, the applied clasped corners, panels and lock plates with birds and flowers, probably Flemish or French, 61cm wide, 43cm deep, 28cm high.
£1,800-£2,200
Provenance:
P.M.Warde Norbury, Hooton Pagnell, Doncaster, Yorkshire.
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image... A George I walnut, sycamore and ebony foliate marquetry chest
The rectangular moulded top with central oval panel of scrolling acanthus, flowerheads, ho-ho birds and mythological beasts within similar inlay to each corner, above two short and three long graduated inlaid drawers, the sides with marquetry panels of flowers and griffins, on a moulded plinth base and turned bun feet, 100cm wide, 57cm deep, 92cm high.
£4,000-£6,000
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Click to view full image... A George I carved walnut stool
The rectangular padded drop-in seat above a plain frieze on cabriole leaf carved scrolled legs on pad feet, 51cm wide, 40cm deep, 40cm high.
£1,200-£1,800
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image... A William & Mary walnut and olive oyster veneered and green stained horn marquetry candlestand
Inlaid with ebonised lines, the octagonal moulded top with a central circular panel of a bird within a wreath of flowerheads and leaves, on a spirally turned shaft and floral marquetry base, on downswept tripod legs and later turned feet, 33cm diameter, 84cm high.
£2,500-£3,500
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Click to view full image... A George II cocuswood, walnut and banded side table
Inlaid with boxwood and ebonised lines, the rectangular quarter-veneered top above frieze drawers to each end, on slender cabriole lapetted legs and pad feet, with castors, stamped to one drawer, 'T.WILLSON 68 GREAT QUEENS STREET LONDON', 91cm wide, 52cm deep, 75cm high.
£2,500-£3,500
A related card table in cocuswood (traditionally thought to be laburnum) and dated circa 1710 can be seen illustrated in G.Beard & J.Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, page 52, figure 3. Another of similar form from Ickworth Park, Suffolk, is illustrated in P.Maquoid and R.Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, p.195, fig.8.
Thomas Willson is listed at 68 Great Queen Street, London as a furniture broker, auctioneer and appraiser (1799-1854). It has been suggested that the Willson's were good quality second-hand furniture dealers (brokers), although there is mention of a 'Furniture Works' in the 1838-54 entries which may be a reference to a repair workshop rather than a manufactory. See G.Beard & C.Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, p.985.
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Click to view full image... A 17th century Flemish repoussé gilt-brass cushion frame marginal mirror
Profusely decorated with scrolling leaves, flowers and exotic birds, the arched cresting above a rectangular plate within mirrored border plates, 130cm high, 86cm high.
£3,000-£5,000
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Click to view full image... A Queen Anne carved giltwood pier mirror
With arched bevelled divided plate the upper part cut with scrolling stylised leaves within a triple moulded frame flanked by cluster columns to each side, regilt, 142cm high, 67cm high.
£3,000-£5,000
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Click to view full image... A large William & Mary walnut, ebonised and sycamore marquetry lace box
The rectangular hinged lid with moulded edge inlaid with a central bird amongst scrolling leaves and flowers within an oval banding and with further leaves and flowers to each corner, the front and sides similarly inlaid, on a moulded base, 54cm wide, 41cm deep, 13cm high.
£2,500-£3,500
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image...Click to view full image... ¥ A William and Mary kingwood oyster veneered and rosewood cabinet on stand
The upper part with a moulded overhanging cornice and cushion frieze drawer above a pair of geometric inlaid doors enclosing an interior of ten various drawers around a central cupboard door enclosing five various small drawers, the stand with a long frieze drawer, on six later square section broken scroll legs joined by shaped stretchers uniting to support a radiating kingwood oyster veneered oval inlaid platform, on turned bun feet, with various old handwritten labels to the interior of the drawers and inscribed '1799', '1802', 'Jovis' and another 'Leverton Papers, to be Kept', 124.5cm wide, 52cm deep, 172cm high.
£8,000-£12,000
The cabinet offered here forms part of a small number of known cabinets which share certain similarities. Two have been published: notably an escritoire from the collection of the architect Basil Ionides with apparently a notably similar arrangement of kingwood oyster veneer roundels and spandrels (Country Life, August 11, 1950). This escritoire was referred to by Christopher Gilbert as a 'highly important kingwood fall-front cabinet inscribed 'Thomas Pistor, Ludgate Hill, London, formerly owned by the Hon. Basil Ionides, which unfortunately remains untraced', see C.Gilbert, The Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840, Leeds 1996, p.44.
A similarly veneered kingwood cabinet "in two stages" forms part of the Noel Terry collection at Fairfax House, York and is illustrated in P.Brown, The Noel Terry Collection of Furniture & Clocks, York 1987, p.39, catalogued as c.1690-95 and acquired by Noel Terry from Mallett in 1935.
It is possible that the class as a whole has a common maker (based on Christopher Gilbert's comments, possibly Thomas Pistor, for further information on this cabinetmaker see lot 27). There are similarities between different examples not only in the use of the veneers, but also in the details of the mouldings and other points of construction.
The name 'Kingwood' does not appear in British sources until 1770 before which it was probably referred to as princes wood although the exact Botanical species has not been identified other than being a species of Dalbergia, see A.Bowett, Woods in British Furniture Making 1400-1900, Wetherby 2012, p.104. Bowett notes that kingwood had generally gone out of fashion by around 1730 but was re-introduced, very possibly by the French émigré cabinetmakers in London during the 1770's. Kingwood was amongst the most expensive woods generally used by cabinet-makers at the time, and its use is invariably associated with furniture of high quality.
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Click to view full image... A Louis XIV kingwood oyster veneered and brass bound strong box/coffre fort
The strapwork hinged lid enclosing and inner hinged lid, the fall front enclosing two short drawers, 36cm wide, 23cm deep, 22cm high.
£1,500-£2,000
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image... A Louis XIV kingwood crossbanded and parquetry kneehole desk
The rectangular hinged top above a secretaire drawer enclosing four short drawers above a recessed kneehole enclosing a shelf, flanked by four short drawer to each side, on six later turned ball feet, 95cm wide, 54cm deep, 77cm high.
£2,000-£3,000
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Click to view full image... A large pair of tôleware red and gilt chinoiserie decorated japanned lamp bases
Decorated all over with Chinese figures in landscapes with buildings, birds and foliate decoration, the campana urns with reeded socles and flattened spherical supports on square plinth bases, each 38cm diameter, 75cm high (including fittings). (2)
£1,500-£2,000
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Click to view full image... A rare late George II papier-mâché black and gilt chinoiserie cache-pot
Decorated with sprays of flowers, a seated female figure and a building in a landscape setting, the urn shaped body, on a moulded foot, 19.5cm diameter, 18cm high.
£800-£1,200
The fine surface of this cache-pot suggests that it was made after the early experimental years of papier-mâché, the floral design being taken from Stalker & Parker's, A Treatise of Japanning & Varnishing, 1668, pl.13.
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Click to view full image... A George II burr yew, walnut and parcel gilt toilet mirror
With chequerbanding throughout, the rectangular plate within a shaped swing frame, above a scrolling pierced fret cross support, the rectangular moulded base with three short drawers, on shaped ogee bracket feet, 46cm wide, 19cm deep, 63cm high.
£1,500-£2,000
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image...Click to view full image... A William & Mary kingwood oyster veneered cabinet on chest attributed to Thomas Pistor
The upper part with a moulded overhanging cornice and a cushion frieze drawer above a pair of cupboard doors inlaid with concentric circles and enclosing a fitted interior of eleven various drawers, the housing for two of the larger top drawers concealing sliding compartments with small removable lidded boxes, around a central cupboard door with a sliding panel and concealed box compartment within the door, the door enclosing four further small short drawers, the lower part with two short and two long drawers, on later bun feet, the sides similarly decorated with oyster veneers, 119cm wide, 51cm deep, 180.5cm high
£20,000-£30,000
The attribution to the London cabinet-maker Thomas Pistor is based on a group of pieces identified and previously with W.R Harvey including two kingwood cabinets and a desk to which the cabinet offered here is clearly part of the same group.
There were in fact two cabinet-makers called Thomas Pistor, father and son, working for a period at the same time but at different premises. One or both are known to have made furniture of quality for Levens Hall although the group of kingwood pieces that correspond to the cabinet offered here do not relate directly to the Levens Hall furniture.
From the 4-18 August 1950 Country Life ran a series of articles featuring what was then the recently rebuilt Buxted Park, a house reconstructed by the architect Basil Ionides following a serious fire and in one of the illustrations a kingwood escritoire is visible. Subsequently Christopher Gilbert commented in The Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1770-1840, Leeds, 1996, p.44 that a "highly important kingwood fall-front cabinet inscribed 'Thomas Pistor, Ludgate Hill, London', formerly owned by the Hon. Basil Ionides, unfortunately remains untraced. It was amongst the Buxted Park furniture at Sotheby's, 25 September 1963, lot 168 (withdrawn)…". The whereabouts of this escritoire remain unknown and further details of how the pieces was marked remain uncertain.
There was in fact no Sotheby's sale on this date. A somewhat later sale of the Ionides' property was held by Sotheby's, 1 November 1963, in which lot 168 was described as "A William and Mary olivewood secretaire cabinet in richly figured parquetry…". although no trade label is mentioned. It is nonetheless possible that this is the piece referred to by Christopher Gilbert. Gilbert was amongst the first generation of furniture historians to have begun compiling archives of stamped and labelled furniture leading to the publication of both The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840 (1986) and Marked London Furniture 1700-1840 (1996). The Buxted cabinets appearance could well have meant that his attention was drawn to it by the furniture department at Sotheby's while processing the Ionides property.
The overall profile and proportions of the Buxted escritoire conforms to that of the cabinet offered here and the W.R Harvey cabinets as does the pattern of oysters visible on the frieze drawer, and there is a strikingly similar large radiating circular pattern. It is undoubtedly the same maker responsible for the cabinet offered here and for the two W.R Harvey cabinets, one of which is a near pair to the above cabinet. The two cabinets share virtually identical dimensions, profile of the mouldings at the cornice, waist and base. The size and layout of all of the drawers are identical and in both cabinets secret drawers can be found in the underside of the internal door and above the two top internal drawers and the use of veneers is near identical on both pieces. The interiors of both are furnished with two large drawers above and below the central door, three smaller drawers either side, and a small drawer immediately below the door. The veneers on the drawers are again almost identical, the chest sections have dovetails that appear to have been cut by the same hand. The internal door locks appear the same and most strikingly of all, the stylised numbers on the backs of the internal drawers and the corresponding divides were seemingly done by the same hand presumably in the same workshop.
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Click to view full image... A George III carved giltwood and gesso mirror
On a punched ground, the rectangular bevelled plate within a leaf carved moulding surmounted by a scrolling acanthus pierced cresting, with shaped apron below carved with shells, scrolling acanthus and centred by a flowerhead, re-gilt, 101cm high, 55cm wide.
£2,000-£3,000
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Click to view full image... A George II cut gesso and giltwood mirror/girandole
The later rectangular bevelled plate within a sanded moulded slip and leaf carved border surmounted by a scrolling leaf and shell carved cresting, on a similarly carved undulating apron below, re-gilt, candle-branches missing, the frame slightly reduced to fit the current plate probably during the 18th century, 121cm high, 69cm wide.
£1,200-£1,800
Provenance:
Sybil Sassoon, late Dowager Marchioness Cholmondeley, CBE (1894-1989), widow of George Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley and daughter of Sir Edward Albert Sassoon (1856-1912), 2nd Bt., and Baroness Aline Caroline de Rothschild (1865-1909).
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image... A George III mahogany kneehole bureau dressing table, attributed to Thomas Chippendale
The rectangular moulded top above a flame figured frieze drawer enclosing seven divisions above a recessed kneehole with panelled door enclosing a shaped shelf, flanked by three short drawers to each side, on ogee bracket feet, with laminated blocks behind the feet, 97cm wide, 57cm deep, 80cm high.
£1,000-£1,500
Provenance:
The late Hon. Mrs. B. Bruce (1921-2012) wife of the late Hon. Bernard Bruce, the only son of Victor Alexander Bruce 9th Earl of Elgin, 13th Earl of Kincardine and of Culross Abbey House by his second marriage. Considered to be one of the earliest classical buildings in Scotland Culross Abbey House is the dower house to Broomhall, the seat of the 11th Earl of Elgin. See Country Life, Culross Abbey House, Fife : The home of the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, 16 May 1957, pp 981-983.
This lot may be closely compared with a George III mahogany 'buroe' table by Thomas Chippendale supplied to Ninian Home for Paxton House, Berwickshire, at a cost of £6.12s. It recently appeared on the market at Christies, London, 14 May 2003, lot 140 (realised £77,675 including premium). It can also be seen illustrated in C.Claxton Stevens & S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, p.108.
Another version of the same item, but without the entre-lac moulded border was made for the Buff Bedroom at Paxton House, presumably also by Chippendale (see C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, fig.417) and is illustrated alongside the aforementioned Paxton bureau, together with a design for a bureau dressing table from the Director (1754) PL.XLI (figs 415 & 416).
A George III mahogany kneehole possibly by Thomas Chippendale was sold Christies, London 22 January 2009, lot 29 which can be closely compared with the above lot having a part-fitted mahogany lined frieze drawer and laminated corner blocks behind the feet.
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image...Click to view full image...Click to view full image... A Queen Anne black japanned bureau cabinet
The double-domed cornice, with flambeau finials above a pair of conforming doors with bevelled mirror doors revealing a partially red-japanned interior with an arrangement of shelves, pigeonholes, folio divisions and small drawers, the fall enclosing a fitted interior with conforming decoration including a well, below are two short and two long graduated drawers, on bun feet, restorations, 102cm wide, 58cm deep, 221cm high.
£20,000-£30,000
With close similarities to a Queen Anne black japanned bureau cabinet, sold Christies, London, 29 November 1984 (realised £41,040 including buyer's premium) illustrated G.Beard & J Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, p.62. This pattern of bureau cabinet was produced with other coloured schemes of japanning and is of closely related overall form and decoration to a bureau cabinet exhibited by The Pelham Galleries, Paris at TEFAF Maastricht, 2007 and formerly offered a Della Rocca, Torino, 21 November 2006. A red japanned example of very similar form with the addition of a wavy apron was exhibited by Mallett & Son at The Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, London 1959 and illustrated in the accompanying handbook.
The vogue for lacquered objects and screens which were brought back to Europe by the East India Company in the late 17th century resulted in demand for larger pieces with a similar style of decoration. Western cabinet-makers turned to John Stalker and George Parker's seminal 1688 Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing which provided the recipes for producing the various different colours but also templates of Chinese figures, plants and gardens which could be used to create seemingly authentic Chinese scenes. European 'japanning' remained fashionable until the end of the eighteenth century.
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image... A George I burr walnut, crossbanded and featherbanded chest
The rectangular moulded edge top banded with a large central medallion and segmented corners above two short and two long drawers, on later bun feet, 105cm wide, 60cm deep, 83cm high.
£3,000-£5,000
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Click to view full image... A George III mahogany mule chest
The rectangular moulded hinged lid above two short and one long graduated drawer, with carrying handles to the sides, on shaped bracket feet, 105cm wide, 49cm deep, 81cm high.
£800-£1,200
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image... An early George III mahogany secretaire bookcase
in the manner of Giles Grendey
The rectangular egg and dart and dentil moulded cornice above a pair of shaped bevelled later glazed doors, with egg and dart moulded slips enclosing two adjustable shelves, above a secretaire drawer enclosing a central arched panelled door enclosing a small drawer flanked by ten pigeonholes and six drawers above a pair of shaped panelled doors with egg and dart moulding on later ogee bracket feet, 122cm wide, 46cm deep, 238cm high.
£5,000-£7,000
Two mahogany cabinets with similar cartouche shaped panels, bearing the label of Giles Grendey, Clerkenwell, London are illustrated in Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture,1996, pp. 240-241, pls. 432 and 433.
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image... An early George III mahogany bidet
The kidney shaped seat with a removable flat lid enclosing a tin liner with plug on baluster turned legs joined by an
'H' stretcher, 59cm wide, 33cm deep, 54cm high.
£1,000-£1,500
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Click to view full image... A George III Irish carved mahogany stool
The rounded rectangular drop-in seat on acanthus carved cabriole legs with trefid feet, 56cm wide, 46cm deep, 41cm high.
£800-£1,200
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Click to view full image... A George III mahogany open armchair
in the manner of Thomas Chippendale
The scrolled toprail above a pierced scrolling splat and outswept scroll arms above a drop-in seat on cabriole legs and pad feet, 58cm wide, 50cm deep, 101cm high.
£800-£1,200
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Click to view full image... Miniature Furniture: A George II mahogany and chequerbanded bureau bookcase
With oak sides, the chequered lines inlaid in walnut, bog oak and fruitwood, the moulded cornice above a pair of mirrored panel doors enclosing a shelf, above a fall enclosing a later rectangular green velvet writing surface and fitted interior, comprising a collection of four pigeonholes and three small drawers, above three graduated drawers on bracket feet, 25.5cm wide, 14.5cm deep, 44cm high (10in wide, 5.5in deep, 17in high).
£1,500-£2,000
Provenance:
Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940)
E.F. Benson was an English author. Born at Wellington College in Berkshire, educated at Marlborough College, Benson was a prolific writer, publishing his first book while still a student. He is principally known for his Mapp and Lucia series about Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp, which was adapted for television and radio.
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Click to view full image... A George II carved mahogany cheval dressing mirror
The arched bevelled plate with a cut gesso slip and moulded frame flanked by fluted uprights, on downswept cabochon carved scroll supports joined by a pierced scroll and shell carved flattened stretcher, 52cm wide, 36cm deep, 54cm high,
£1,500-£2,000
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Click to view full image... A George III mahogany and brass bound bucket
The coopered sloping sides with swing brass carrying handles, together with a later metal liner, 35cm diameter, 33cm high.
£1,000-£1,500
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Click to view full image... A George II carved cream painted girandole
The arched later plate within a bead and reel and Vitruvian scroll slip with a sanded outer-border and egg and dart frame with projecting corners, the sides hung with bell flowers, surmounted by a crown and fleur-de-lys flanked by scrolls and overhanging foliage, with a shell and foliate scrollwork apron below with plates for candle arms, 97cm high, 65cm wide.
£4,000-£6,000
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Click to view full image... A George III carved giltwood mirror
The rectangular bevelled plate within a channelled frame with acanthus carved corners and a beaded outer frame, regilt, the plate 18th century and re-used, 95cm high, 62cm wide.
£600-£800
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Click to view full image... A pair of late 19th century mahogany window seats
in the George III style
Upholstered and close-nailed in bronze coloured and red leaf upholstery, the scrolling arms above rectangular padded seats on square moulded legs with pierced scrolling brackets joined by 'H' stretchers, each 118cm wide, 43cm deep, 74cm high. (2)
£2,000-£3,000
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Click to view full image... A 19th century Irish carved mahogany silver/centre table
The rectangular moulded top with re-entrant corners above an undulating moulded and paterae carved friezes centred by a shell, on cabriole acanthus leaf carved legs, on claw and ball feet, 78cm wide, 55cm deep, 69cm high.
£2,000-£2,500
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Click to view full image... A small George III mahogany chest/commode
The rectangular moulded top above a slide and three long graduated drawers, on shaped bracket feet, with recessed castors, the lower drawer integral with the front base moulding and feet, 71cm wide, 42cm deep, 75cm high.
£2,500-£3,500
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Click to view full image...Click to view full image... A set of six George III carved mahogany dining chairs
in the Chinese Chippendale taste
The serpentine toprails with acanthus leaf carved ears above pierced vertical vase shaped splats pierced with quatrefoils and with carved crockets, above stuffover serpentine seats, upholstered in cream damask, on square tapering legs and square feet. (6)
£10,000-£15,000
Provenance:
Purchased Sotheby's, London 12 June 2002, lot 25 (realised £25,095 including premium)
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Click to view full image... A George III mahogany blind fret carved serving table
after a design by Thomas Chippendale
The rectangular moulded top above a blind fret carved frieze on square tapering chamfered and blind fret carved legs with pierced entrelac and 'C scroll corner brackets, on square plinth feet, possibly previously with a marble top, 140cm wide, 64cm deep, 80cm high.
£6,000-£8,000
The design for this table is after an illustration in Thomas Chippendale's first edition of the Director (1754), plate XXXVI. A similar example with a marble top was sold Christies, London, The English Collector, 14 November 2013, lot 129, which was possibly originally commissioned by John Walker (d.1806) for Compton House, Compton Bassett, Wiltshire (realised £50,000 including buyer's premium). A another similar example by the Scottish cabinet-maker Alexander Peter was commissioned by William Dalrymple-Crichton, 5th Earl of Dumfries, 4th Earl of Stair for Dumfries House, Ayrshire, (see Christies, Dumfries House: A Chippendale Commission, vol.I, 12 July 2007, lot 71).
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Click to view full image... A George III mahogany bedside commode/chest
The rectangular moulded top above four long graduated drawers, on shaped bracket feet, converted, 64cm wide, 44cm deep, 71cm high.
£800-£1,200
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Click to view full image... A George III mahogany night commode
The rectangular moulded top above a pair of simulated drawers and a deep drawer simulated as two drawers but enclosing a lidded pot, on shaped bracket feet, 56cm wide, 47cm deep, 71cm high.
£1,000-£1,500
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Click to view full image... An early George III mahogany Pembroke table
in the manner of Thomas Chippendale
The rectangular hinged top above a frieze drawer, on square moulded legs headed by pierced brackets, joined by a shaped undertier on reel and block feet, with leather castors, 97cm wide, 70cm deep, 71cm high.
£2,000-£2,500
Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD
Fine Furniture and Objects
Auctioneer: The Pedestal Location: Hertfordshire
Contact: Tel: 0207 281 2790
Date: 14th March 2017 Time: 2:00PM
Details: Viewing:
Saturday 11th March 11am to 4pm
Sunday 12th March 11am to 4pm
Monday 13th March 9am to 5pm
Tuesday 14th March 9am to 12pm
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