Live Auction 10660Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LINEN PRESS
Lot 597

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LINEN PRESS

BY HENRY KETTLE, CIRCA 1775

Closed16 September 2015

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GBP 3,500

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LINEN PRESS
BY HENRY KETTLE, CIRCA 1775
With key pattern cornice, the cartouche-panelled doors enclosing a hanging rail and two shelves, one of the oak-lined drawers with label 'Henry Kettle, (Successor to Mr Philip Bell) CABINET-MAKER/ Upholder & Undertaker, at No. 23, in St Pauls Church-Yard, LONDON'
75 in. (191 cm.) high; 49 ½ in. (125.5 cm.) wide; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep

Specialist note

A press by Kettle of identical model is at Colonial Williamsburg and is illustrated in Gilbert (ed.), Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, London, 1996, p. 291.