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Lot 661
A GEORGE III KINGWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND TULIPWOOD CHEVERET
CIRCA 1790
Closed10 May 2018
Price Realised
USD 7,500
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A GEORGE III KINGWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND TULIPWOOD CHEVERET
CIRCA 1790
With fold-over inset gilt-tooled green leather writing surface, over a frieze drawer, on square tapering legs, the super structure possibly originally with drawers, with inventory label inscribed D.R. 51.1045
34 ¼ in. (87 cm.) high, 15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) wide, 12 in. (30.5 cm.) deep
CIRCA 1790
With fold-over inset gilt-tooled green leather writing surface, over a frieze drawer, on square tapering legs, the super structure possibly originally with drawers, with inventory label inscribed D.R. 51.1045
34 ¼ in. (87 cm.) high, 15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) wide, 12 in. (30.5 cm.) deep
A GEORGE III KINGWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND TULIPWOOD CHEVERET
CIRCA 1790
With fold-over inset gilt-tooled green leather writing surface, over a frieze drawer, on square tapering legs, the super structure possibly originally with drawers, with inventory label inscribed D.R. 51.1045
34 ¼ in. (87 cm.) high, 15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) wide, 12 in. (30.5 cm.) deep
CIRCA 1790
With fold-over inset gilt-tooled green leather writing surface, over a frieze drawer, on square tapering legs, the super structure possibly originally with drawers, with inventory label inscribed D.R. 51.1045
34 ¼ in. (87 cm.) high, 15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) wide, 12 in. (30.5 cm.) deep
Acquired from Stuart and Turner, London, June 1953.
D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 344, no. 383.
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