The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma
The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma
A Regency style painted and parcel-gilt bookcase, late 19th/early 20th century
Auction Closed
March 24, 08:41 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Regency style painted and parcel-gilt bookcase
late 19th/early 20th century
the shaped verde antico marble over open shelves within leaf rounded pilasters with applied neo-classical decoration on turned feet together with a collection of bindings, comprising; 79 leather-bound books, including Boswell’s Life of Johnson (John Murray, 1835), 10 volumes, Life of W. Pitt (John Murray, 1867), 4 volumes and 34 volumes of Bell’s British Theatre; some sets incomplete and the shelves redecorated
99.5cm. high, 131cm. wide, 40cm. deep
Inventory, 1926, p. 28, in the South Room.