Live Auction 14193Robert de Balkany Rome & the Côte d'Azur
A SET OF LARGE WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY LIBRARY STEPS
Lot 182

A SET OF LARGE WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY LIBRARY STEPS

CIRCA 1835

Closed23 March 2017

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GBP 25,000

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A SET OF LARGE WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY LIBRARY STEPS
CIRCA 1835
With eight-step staircase and galleried platform, on a rectangular base with concealed castors
98 ½ in. (250 cm.) high; 84 in. (213.5 cm.) wide; 31 ¼ in. (79.5 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 October 1995, lot 265.
A private collection, Canada.
The Barnwell Manor, Northamptonshire; sold Sotheby's, 28-30 May 2002, lot 339.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 July 2003, lot 39.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 April 2009, lot 42.

Specialist note

The present library steps have flowered tripod-altar rails and serpentined balusters that combine 'Roman' and Louis Quatorze style elements in the fashion promoted by George Smith's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826. Related but less robust steps were designed by Thomas Chippendale Junior in 1804 for the Egyptian library at Stourhead, Wiltshire (J. Shurmer, Stourhead, London, 1997, p. 11).