拍品 415
  • 415

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY KNEEHOLE DESK, CIRCA 1755, IN THE MANNER OF PAUL SAUNDERS |

估價
2,500 - 4,000 GBP
招標截止

描述

  • 80cm. high, 131cm. wide, 65.5cm. deep; 31½in., 51½in., 25¾in.
the gilt-tooled leather inset top above three short frieze drawers above a kneehole and flanked by two sets of three drawers

來源

Sotheby's Olympia, 8 November 2005, lot 187.

Condition

Overall in good restored condition and ready to place. Handles and locks probably replaced. The replaced leather top attractively worn with old marks and scratches. Cupboard to kneehole possibly later replacement. One side with restored age crack, slightly faded in colour. The other side with two restored vertical age cracks. Corners to base fitted with metal tacks and evidence of re-blocking. Surface re-polished generally with minor old marks and scratches consistent with age and use. With two keys.
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拍品資料及來源

This interesting commode is clearly related to a similar documented pair of 'Exceeding Rich Mahog. Commodes of fine wood & wrought ornaments on Casters £45.' supplied to the Mansion House, London in 1752, for use in the State Bedroom[1]. Ordered from the London cabinetmakers William Kiplin, William Chesson and Paul Saunders, they were part of an extensive commission, the three makers having formed a temporary partnership which appears to have terminated in 1757. For a further example, see Sotheby’s New York, Tom Devenish: The Collection, 24 April 2008, lot 67. [1] Sally Jeffrey, The Mansion House, London, 1993, pp. 165-166, fig. 138.