REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND BRASS INLAID BOOKCASE Y
EARLY 19TH CENTURY WITH ALTERATIONS
£3,276
Auction: Day 1
Description
the upper shelved bookcase with a moulded cornice above a palmette and anthemion inlaid frieze, over a pair of brass grill doors enclosing shelves and flanked by brass mounted triple cluster columns; the lower part with a single fall-front drawer with a matching inlay, over a concave recess lined with green pleated silk flanked by reeded tapered colums ending on giltwood paw feet; adapted from an organ case
Dimensions
156cm wide, 260cm high, 61cm deep
Provenance
Tendring Hall Sale, probably 1930s
Great House, Dedham, Essex
Footnote
Purchased by Raymond Erith at the sale of contents of Sir John Soane's Tendring Hall, Suffolk, on behalf of the present owner's grandparents, to furnish the drawing room at Great House.
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