Live Auction 5658Christie's Interiors
Christie’s roundel
Lot 71

A MID-VICTORIAN BURR-WALNUT COMMODE

BY HOLLAND AND SONS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed5 January 2010

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GBP 1,500

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A MID-VICTORIAN BURR-WALNUT COMMODE
BY HOLLAND AND SONS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The shaped rectangular top with lobed front corners above three short and two long drawers flanked by fluted pilasters, the upper left-hand drawer stamped HOLLAND & SON, the upper right hand drawer dated in pencil to the unerside 1874
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 45 in. (114 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Holland and Sons were among the most distinguished furniture producers of the Victorian period, starting as Taprell and Holland at the beginning of the 19th Century, and becoming Holland and Sons in 1843. They supplied the furniture for many of the London clubs including the Athenaeum, the Reform Club and the Oxford and Cambridge Club. They took over premises in Mount Street in 1851 and their archives dating to 1942, when the firm ceased trading, are now preserved by the Victoria and Albert Museum.