A George III mahogany linen press circa 1770, in the manner of Thomas Chippendale

the top with a double fluted moulded cornice with carved roundels above a pair of doors with carved roundels, enclosing sliding trays, the base with two short and two long drawers, on shaped bracket feet, the handles apparently original, the cornice with a label "Miss Wyatt's in care of Rev.d L.D. Hastings Colming Rectory, Trowbridge, Wilt" and another illegible, . 

A mahogany linen or clothes press of very similar form to the present lot was supplied by Chippendale, Haig & Co. to Ninian Home for Paxton House, Berwickshire, in 1774 and is illustrated in C.Gilbert, The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, p.138, fig.248.