Estimated Price:

$82,000 - $131,200

Realized Price:

$183,106

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The moulded dentilled breakfront cornice with triangular broken pediment centred by a central rectangular pedestal with moulded cornice, above a pair of astragal-glazed doors enclosing four adjustable mahogany-fronted shelves flanked by two further doors with corresponding glazing and each with three shelves, the moulded waist above a breakfront lower section with two tiers of four drawers with original lacquered-brass handles, flanked by a pair of rectangular panelled doors with fielded panels enclosing a plain interior, one with one mahogany-fronted adjustable shelf, the other with two mahogany- fronted adjustable shelves, on a moulded plinth base, the handles apparently original, two keys, the cornice moulding to the plinth in the pediment replaced 104 in. (264.2 cm.) high; 971/2 in. (247.5 cm.) wide; 203/4 in. (53 cm.) deep PROVENANCE Anonymous sale (The Property of a Gentleman), in these Rooms, 28 June 1979, lot 131. Bought from Norman Adams, 24 February 1981. LITERATURE C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, rev. ed., 1985, p. 190 ('This splendidly proportioned bookcase is constructed of first quality mahogany...'). NOTES This bookcase is designed in the George III Roman fashion with its dentilled temple-pediment centred by a pedestal for a bust and its reeded glazing bars trellised with lozenges and tablets in the Roman mosaic manner. Its 'Bookcase' pattern, with the exception of the central drawers, was published in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, pl. LXIII. The pattern for 'picturesque' swagged handle, with pine-cone trellising, features in a Birmingham brass hardware catalogue (T.R. Crom, An Eighteenth Century English Brass Hardware Catalogue, Florida, 1994, p. 36, no. 256).