Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics

Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 105. A GEORGE II MAHOGANY LIBRARY BOOKCASE CABINET, CIRCA 1750.

Property from the Estate of Andrew Hartnagle

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY LIBRARY BOOKCASE CABINET, CIRCA 1750

Lot Closed

April 22, 02:05 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Andrew Hartnagle

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY LIBRARY BOOKCASE CABINET, CIRCA 1750


stamped James Winter & Sons, 151-153 Wardour St., Soho, London; the waist and slide on the lower section later added, losses and replacements to pediment mouldings

height 103 ¾ in.; width 80 ½ in.; depth 22 ¼ in.

263.5 cm; 204.5 cm; 26.5 cm

The Honorable C. Douglas Dillon, New York

Sotheby's New York, 22 January 1994, lot 216

Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1996, p. 495, fig. 1019

Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 993

James Winter was a furniture broker, appraiser, and undertaker based in Soho, selling both new and older work and offering 'a Liberal Price for Second hand Furniture in Large and Small quantities.' The firm opened at 101 Wardour Street in 1823 and in 1840 moved its premises to nos. 151-153, where it operated until 1870.