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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE SECRETAIRE CHEST
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE SECRETAIRE CHEST

THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

Fermé18 March 2009

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE SECRETAIRE CHEST
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY AND LATER
The shaped top with canted angles above a hinged scretaire drawer hung with husk garlands, enclosing a gilt-tooled green leather-lined writing-surface and a fitted interior with mahogany-lined drawers and pigeon holes surrounding a central panelled door enclosing four further drawers, above four short and three long graduated drawers, on later bracket feet, the handles later, the interior re-fitted, the carving added
38¾ in. (98.5 cm.) high; 27½ in. (70 cm.) wide; 15 in. (38 cm.) deep

Edward Dent Esq.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 28 June 1962, lot 72 (£157.10s to Waddingham).
Acquired from W. Waddingham, Harrogate, 1962.

Note du spécialiste

The overall design of this secretaire follows one for a 'Lady's Secretary' published in Mayhew and Ince's The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1759-1762, plate XVIII. A related finely-figured example was sold from The Lord Constantine Collection, Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh, 12 October 2007, lot 663 (£7,000).