Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics
Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics
Property from the Estate of Andrew Hartnagle
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.