John Cobb
THE ST.GILES HOUSE COMMODES
John Cobb
THE ST.GILES HOUSE COMMODES
Date 1765
Epoque 1750-1850, 18th century
Origine England
Medium Chinese lacquer
Dimension 97 x 122.5 x 66 cm (38¹/₄ x 48¹/₄ x 26 inches)
Date: 1765
Epoque: 1750-1850, 18th century
Origine: England
Medium: Chinese lacquer
Dimension: 97 x 122.5 x 66 cm (38¹/₄ x 48¹/₄ x 26 inches)
Provenance: Supplied to the 4th Earl of Shaftesbury for St. Giles House, Dorset, England, by descent until 1999;
Pelham Galleries Ltd., London, England;
Private collection, New York, USA.
Literature: Illustrated:
Margaret Jourdain, ‘St. Giles House, Dorsetshire’, Country Life, 13 March 1915, p. 337, and 20 March 1915, p. 375.
Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, revised edition, 1954, vol. II, p. 114, fig. 12.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, ‘English Taste in the Eighteenth Century exhibition catalogue’, 1955, p. 38, fig. 245; one of the pair.
Anthony Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, 1968, illus. 336.
Exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts, London, English Taste in the Eighteenth Century exhibition, 1955; one of the pair.
Ronald Phillips Ltd
18th Century and Early 19th Century English Furniture, Objets d’Art, Glass, Clocks and Barometers
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