Live Auction 2435500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, including Oriental Carpets
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST-OF-DRAWERS
Lot 482

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST-OF-DRAWERS

CIRCA 1770

Closed15 April 2011

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST-OF-DRAWERS
CIRCA 1770
Of serpentine form, with a brushing slide over four graduated drawers on high arched bracket feet, the back with ivorine label stamped FRANK PARTRIDGE WORKS OF ART 26 KING STREET ST JAMES AND NEW YORK
33 in. (84 cm.) high, 39½ in. (100.5 cm.) wide, 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) deep

With Frank Partridge, London.
The Estates of Ambassador David K.E. Bruce and Evangeline Bruce, Washington, D.C.
Acquired from Gerald Bland, New York, 2005.

Specialist note

The pattern for its 'poetic' handles, of pearled paterae festooned with beribboned laurels, also features in a contemporary metal-worker pattern-book (numbered 1842) (see N. Goodison, 'The Victoria and Albert Museum's Collection of Metal-Work Pattern Books,' Furniture History, 1975, fig. 22).