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An Attractive Pair of Bedside Cupboards of the Regency Period (c. 1815 England)

Mahogany

41.00cm wide   78.00cm high   36.00cm deep (16.14 inches wide  30.71 inches high  14.17 inches deep)

Provenance: Probably acquired by Sir John Gladstone for Seaforth House, Liverpool.

George Smith’s ‘ A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture’ originally published in 1808 has a virtually identical base, designed for use as a stool, shown on plate 53.

Constructed in Mahogany, rising from an end support base of scrolled ‘X’ form, with a tapering and turned stretcher, having exterior reeded bosses, the whole rising from oblong platforms, supported on ball feet: the cupboards of square radiused form, with fielded panel sides, and reeding to the angles, and a gallery above the door, which has brass repousee pulls.