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Picture This CXLVI

Posted on 27th March 2021 by Jack Plane

The vendor of this chest describes it as a circa 1780 mahogany bachelor’s chest with a caddy top. Fig. 1. Inoffensive looking late eighteenth-century chest. What say the sleuths? Jack Plane

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Picture This CXLV

Posted on 1st March 2021 by Jack Plane

Lot 230 in Bonham’s recent The Gentleman’s Library Sale was this late early walnut chest (figure 1). Fig. 1. George II walnut caddy top chest of three drawers, circa 1735. (Bonham’s) ‘Late early’ may sound a little Irish, but, with … Continue reading →

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Picture This LXXXVI

Posted on 12th May 2016 by Jack Plane

There is a particularly nice walnut chest of drawers coming up for auction in Christie’s The English Collector: English Furniture, Clocks, European Ceramics & Portrait Miniatures in King Street, London on the 19th of May 2016. The chest comprises a … Continue reading →

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Picture This XLV

Posted on 11th March 2015 by Jack Plane

A reader commented in Picture This XXV regarding the Elizabeth Carter bureau bookcase in Dr Johnson’s House in Gough Square, London. The location and design of the lopers in Carter’s bureau is unusual (fig.1). Fig. 1. Elizabeth Carter’s bureau bookcase. … Continue reading →

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