A George I Field Maple, Kingwood and Pewter-Inlaid Slant Front Bureau attributed to John Coxed or Coxed and Woster, Circa 1715
No reserve
Auction Closed
October 15, 06:30 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
the interior fitted with an arrangement of drawers and pigeonholes and later green leather writing surface, the removable central section concealing six secret drawers behind; above two short and three graduated long drawers raised on later bun feet; handles and locks replaced; back and one drawer with linen tape numbered A.5141.49-623
height 41 1/4 in.; width 40 1/4 in.; depth 22 1/4 in.
104.5 cm; 103 cm; 56.5 cm
Henry P. Strause;
Los Angeles County Museum of Art;
Christie's New York, 15 April 2005, lot 150.
A very similar bureau bearing the label of the London cabinetmaker John Coxed is illustrated in Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture: 1700-1840, London 1996, p. 153, fig. 234. This is part of a group of cabinet furniture all veneered in burr maple with the same distinctive pewter-strung tropical wood cross-banding and bearing the labels of John Coxed or Coxed and Woster (Gilbert p.154-58, figs. 235-6, 241-45). Born in Abingdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), John Coxed was documented as an apprentice joiner in London in 1696 and became a freeman in 1703. In 1707 he married his master's widow Grace Mayo and from 1711 was recorded at the White Swan workshop in St Paul's Churchyard. Following his early death in 1718, the firm was taken over by his widow and brother-in-law Thomas Woster and traded under the name of G. Coxed and T. Woster until c.1735.
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