AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY `CHINA` CABINET-ON-STAND

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Lot 603 | AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY 'CHINA' CABINET-ON-STAND
AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY 'CHINA' CABINET-ON-STAND

AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, ATTRIBUTED TO WRIGHT AND ELWICK, CIRCA 1765

With a central pagoda flanked by two lower galleried tiers each supported by C-scrolls and foliage on a fretwork gallery above two open fretwork bordered shelves flanked by pierced fretwork doors revealing shelves, the stand with a waved and beaded edge above a fretwork apron centered by a cartouche on blind fretwork carved legs, with white chalk OUTSIDE ... to back of top and 15 to base, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

84 in. (213.4 cm.) high, 47 1/4 in. (120 cm.) wide, 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm.) deep





Provenance

With Frank Partridge, Inc., New York.

Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 29-30 April 1960, lot 261.

‌Private Collection, Texas.

Acquired from James Hepworth by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1995.





Literature

A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, p. 201, fig. 284.

Mcgill, Forrest, A Curious Affair: The Fascination Between East and West, San Francisco, CA, 2006, p. 48.





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