Live Auction 7561Simon Sainsbury The Creation of an English Arcadia
A REGENCY SATINWOOD AND CALAMANDER DRESSING-TABLE
Lot 274

A REGENCY SATINWOOD AND CALAMANDER DRESSING-TABLE

BY GEORGE OAKLEY, CIRCA 1810

Closed18 June 2008

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A REGENCY SATINWOOD AND CALAMANDER DRESSING-TABLE
BY GEORGE OAKLEY, CIRCA 1810
The rectangular top crossbanded with calamander and inlaid with ebonised stringing over a fitted drawer flanked by two tiers of three drawers on ring-turned legs joined by a shaped shelf and with brass capped castors
33¼ in. (84.5 cm.) high; 54 in. (137 cm.) wide; 22½ in. (56.5 cm.) deep

Supplied by George Oakley to Charles Madryll Cheere, Papworth Hall, Cambridge circa 1810.
Thence by descent to Mrs. Stileman.
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 22 April 1989, lot 91.
Acquired from H. Blairman & Sons, 26 May 1989.

Specialist note

Thomas Sheraton in The Cabinet Dictionary, London, 1803, p.202, described the dressing-chest as 'a small case of drawers...the uppermost of which is divided into conveniencies for dressing...there is sometimes a knee hole in the front...if they sit to dress, there must either be a dressing drawer to draw out, or a knee hole in the front when the dressing part is in a well under the top'. George Oakley, 'the most tasteful of the London cabinet-makers', was a subscriber to Sheraton's Dictionary.