Live Auction 2593Christie's Interiors - Masters & Makers
A WILLIAM AND MARY FIELD MAPLE AND PEARWOOD-CROSSBANDED CHEST-ON-STAND
Lot 46

A WILLIAM AND MARY FIELD MAPLE AND PEARWOOD-CROSSBANDED CHEST-ON-STAND

LATE 17TH CENTURY, ON LATER WALNUT STAND

Closed2 November 2011

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GBP 3,750

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A WILLIAM AND MARY FIELD MAPLE AND PEARWOOD-CROSSBANDED CHEST-ON-STAND
LATE 17TH CENTURY, ON LATER WALNUT STAND
Cross-banded and feather-banded throughout, with two short drawers over three long graduated drawers above a frieze drawer, the stand with six turned legs and curved stretchers
51 in. (130 cm.) high; 40 in. (101.5 cm.) wide; 23¼ in. (59 cm.) deep

Acquired by the present owner's grandfather in 1905 from John Leng & Sons, Chichester for £14-0-0
The present owner's father commissioned the new walnut stand in 1983, copying the design of a chest-on-stand in the V & A Museum.