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A GEORGE III BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY BREAKFRONT LIBRARY BOOKCASE

CIRCA 1780

已結束2010年1月20日

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A GEORGE III BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY BREAKFRONT LIBRARY BOOKCASE
CIRCA 1780
The moulded cornice with central broken pediment above astragal glazed doors enclosing thirty six adjustable mahogany shelves, above a satinwood-crossbanded shelf and ten graduated short drawers with beech linings flanked by doors, each crossbanded and quarter veneered and centred by a foliate-oval medallion and with ivory escutcheons, one cupboard enclosing three adjustable shelves, the other a later early 19th century folio slide, on a plinth base, the inside of the cornice with painted graffiti 'JW ... 1827 JAMES WALLACE PAINTER 1846 GEORGE WILKINSON PAINTER 1846 J MACKENZIE SAPPER C A TAYLOR TYNE CC RE (J) W.ROBINSON J.MATTISON PAINTERS SEPT 4TH 1917 G.CARSON 1913 1929 E.TAYLOR 1929' and others, and to the back 'J.M SEPT 4TH WR', three handles replaced, otherwise metal work apparently original
134½ in. (342 cm.) high; 161 in. (409 cm.) wide; 21 in. (54 cm.) deep

Almost certainly commissioned for the library at Newton Hall, Northumberland when built for Samuel Cook (b. 1722) in 1772.

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The handsome bookcase is designed in the 1780s Roman fashion later popularised by Thomas Sheraton's, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book (1793). Mosaic-fretted and French-marquetried in allusion to lyric poetry's triumph, the glazing astragals present loves weapons of bows confronted on medallioned shields; and, derive from Sheraton's Doors for Bookcases pattern no. 4., pl. XXIX but omitting a central figurative tablet recalling ancient Sacrifices at Loves altar. Reflecting the Grecian/Etruscan fashion, flowered medallions in coffer-parquetried and hollow-cornered tablets embellish the commode doors that are recessed to the sides of the central cabinet's drawer-chest base.

It is possible that the bookcase was executed in Scotland, since similar sunflowered handles feature on an early l9th century chest of drawers, likewise inlaid with hollow-cornered tablets, that was supplied by the cabinet-maker John Biggar of Horse Wynd, Edinburgh (see D. Jones, The Edinburgh Cabinet and Chair Makers' Book of Prices, Cupar, 2000, pl. 15).