A George III carved mahogany serpentine corner cabinet circa 1770, in the manner of William Vile

with a replaced moulded marble top, the interior with a shelf

Good overall condition. Slight characteristic warp to door which is not apparent when door is locked shut. Feint vertical filled age crack to centre of oval panel to door. Repaired break near front moulded edge of marble top which is lost in the figuring of the marble. Minor damage to veneer in the region of the lock mortice. Minor old marks and scratches consistent with age and use. Very good colour and patina
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The present cabinet has affinities with the work of the Royal cabinet-maker William Vile, notably in the use of plain mahogany veneers relieved by deep-cut mouldings bordering an oval panel, which are found in similar form on several pieces with which Vile is associated, including a cabinet in the Royal Collection and other examples illustrated in A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, figs. 3, 9-11, 14-16, and 33-35. Similarities also exist with a linen press supplied by Vile's contemporary John Bradburn for the Royal Family at Buckingham House in 1770, illustrated in Coleridge, op. cit., fig. 388 and a further group of cabinets in the Vile-Bradburn tradition illustrated in Lucy Wood, The Lady Lever Art Gallery Catalogue of Commodes, 1994, 42-45 and Christopher Claxton Stevens and Stewart Whittington, Eighteenth Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, 1983, p. 382.