A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE BREAKFRONT-BOOKCASE
Lot 384 PROPERTY FROM A CALIFORNIA COLLECTION (LOT 384)

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE BREAKFRONT-BOOKCASE

CIRCA 1770

Closed15 April 2011

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USD 15,000

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE BREAKFRONT-BOOKCASE
CIRCA 1770
The scrolling arched pediment with a dentiled border and pierced fretwork frieze above two pairs of glazed doors, the base with a fitted secretaire drawer opening to a gilt-tooled beige leather writing surface, various ivory-knopped drawers and pigeonholes, above three long drawers flanked by two tiers of five graduated drawers, on a plinth, brasses replaced, restorations and replacements to fretwork
103½ in. (263 cm.) high, 83 in. (211 cm.) wide, 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 30 January 1993, lot 330.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 19 April 2001, lot 246.

Specialist note

A virtually identical example is illustrated in D. Nickerson, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1963, p. 47, fig. 48.