Thomas Moore
Head of Department
Lot 12TP
A large George III mahogany breakfront bookcase
27 November 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £7,562.50 inc. premium
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A large George III mahogany breakfront bookcase
Circa 1765, the pierced gothic cusped arched pediment above a reverse ogee and stepped moulded cornice, with a Greek key frieze, over four geometric astragal glazed panelled doors enclosing twelve short adjustable shelves, with four re-entrant panel moulded doors below, enclosing four short adjustable shelves, on a moulded plinth base, the cornice/pediment later but probably 19th century, 323cm wide x 58cm deep x 265cm high, (127in wide x 22 1/2in deep x 104in high)
Footnotes
The astragal glazing bar pattern on the present lot is identical to the design for the astragals on a breakfront library bookcase which features in both the first and third editions of Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, No. XC, and appears illustrated in Ibid, Dover Publications, 1966, New York. The date on the original drawing is 1753 however some variants of the offered model were doubtless also produced by Chippendale throughout the third quarter of the 18th century.
