A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT SECRÉTAIRE CABINET ON STAND
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT SECRÉTAIRE CABINET ON STAND
Date 1750
Period 1750-1850, 18th century
Origin England
Medium Mahogany
Dimension 231 x 160 x 59.5 cm (91 x 63 x 23³/₈ inches)
The cabinet has two dummy drawers to each side, a long centre drawer and a hinged fold-down secrétaire section below, all retaining the original ornate brass handles.
The drawer bears inside a paper label printed ‘SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS OF/The Late SIR ERNEST ROYDEN, BART’.
Date: 1750
Period: 1750-1850, 18th century
Origin: England
Medium: Mahogany
Dimension: 231 x 160 x 59.5 cm (91 x 63 x 23³/₈ inches)
Provenance: Sir Ernest Royden, Bart., Frankby Hall, Chester, and Hillbark/Bidston Court, Merseyside, England.
Private collection, USA.
Literature: M. Harris & Sons, A Catalogue and Index of Old Furniture and Works of Decorative Art, circa 1930s, Part II 1730–1780, p. 177.
R. W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, 1929, pp. 102, 105 & 107, figs. 62–3.
Yvonne Hackenbroch, English Furniture with Some Furniture from Other Countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, 1958, pp. 244–5, figs. 285–6.
Sotheby’s, ‘The Moller Collection’, 18 November 1983, lot 84.
Ronald Phillips Ltd
18th Century and Early 19th Century English Furniture, Objets d’Art, Glass, Clocks and Barometers
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