A ROYAL EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHINA CABINET

Lot 39
20.10.2022 18:00UTC -05:00
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ID 819763
Lot 39 | A ROYAL EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHINA CABINET
Valeur estimée
$ 600 000 – 1 000 000
A ROYAL EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHINA CABINET

BY WILLIAM VILE, CIRCA 1761, THE CARVING ATTRIBUTED TO SEFFERIN ALKEN

The broken arch pediment centering a foliate carved rest issuing vinery above a cornice with leaftips and dentils over a central glazed door with bead and reel borders and foliate clasps revealing shelves flanked by lower sections with pierced fretwork galleries terminating in a lush foliate scroll above an arched glazed door with foliate clasp cresting and paneled doors with beaded borders revealing mahogany shelves all backed with later velvet, the breakfronted base with a pagoda carved edge above a blind fretwork carved frieze fitted with three mahogany-lined drawers and an egg-and-dart border, the central door with a laurel wreath punctuated by foliate clasps flanked by two recessed doors with shaped oval egg-and-dart panels and in-curved foliate clasps opening to an adjustable shelf, all on a richly veneered flame mahogany ground, the plinth with egg and dart border, the back panels all in mahogany, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty collection label

94 1/2 in. (240 cm.) high, 62 1/4 in. (158 cm.) wide, 17 3/4 in. (44.5 cm.) deep





Provenance

Supplied by the cabinet-maker William Vile to Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) in 1761 for the Bow Closet in St. James's Palace.

By repute by descent to her daughter Princess Amelia (1783-1810); or the King's aunt Princess Amelia (1711-1786) (see catalogue note).

Margaret Fife, née Rutson, Nunnington Hall, Yorkshire, circa 1920.

With F. Mallett, 1924.

Geoffrey Blackwell, Esq. (1884-1943).

By descent to Captain Basil Blackwell in 1944.

Sir James Caird, Bt. (1864-1954).

By descent to Mrs. H. Scudamore.

Acquired from James Hepworth by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1994.



Literature

R.W. Symonds, Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, London, 1940, pp. 50-52, figs. 33-35.

R. Edwards, ed. The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1954 rev. ed., Vol. I, p. 188, pl. 49.

The Private Collection of Sir James Caird Bart., privately printed, London, 1955, p. 18.

R. Edwards, and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet Makers, London, 1955, fig. 59.

A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, p.177, pl. 33.



Exhibited

Royal Academy of Arts, 'English Taste in the Eighteenth Century', 1955-1956, cat. 149.

London, The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1960s-1981 (loaned by Mrs. H. Scudamore).

Nunnington Hall, North Yorkshire, 1980s.



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