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Lot 228
A PAIR OF GEORGE II SILVER-MOUNTED MAHOGANY KNIFE BOXES
CIRCA 1740, THE SILVER MOUNTS BEARING THE MARK OF CHRISTOPHER NICHOLLE
Closed23 May 2012
Price Realised
GBP 6,000
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Specialist note
This pair of mahogany knife cases are of unusual bowed form, the large majority of such pieces being serpentine-fronted. The form is recorded in Robert and James Adam's designs published in Works in Architecture, 1740, pl.VIII, while a pair of Vizagapatam ivory-inlaid rosewood knife cases of the same shape, c.1760-70, are illustrated in Amin Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 2001, p.194, no.43.
A similar pair of knife boxes were exhibited by J.W.Caldicott & Sons at the BADA Art Treasures Exhibition, 1932, and illustrated in the accompanying catalogue Art Treasures Exhibition 1932, fig. 129.
A similar pair of knife boxes were exhibited by J.W.Caldicott & Sons at the BADA Art Treasures Exhibition, 1932, and illustrated in the accompanying catalogue Art Treasures Exhibition 1932, fig. 129.