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Picture This CXLVI
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
Picture This CXLV
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
Posted in Antiques
Tagged bracket feet, bun feet, caddy-top, chest of drawers, George II, walnut, William and Mary
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Picture This LXXXVI
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
Posted in Antiques, Auction Alerts
Tagged blind-fretted, caddy-top, chest of drawers, ogee bracket feet, serpentine, walnut
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