GEORGE III CHIPPENDALE BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE - REF No. 4078

Product Details

H: 101 in / 254 cm ; W: 113 in / 287 cm ; D: 24 in / 61 cm 

A George III Chippendale Period Mahogany Breakfront Library Bookcase, the raised architectural pediment, with a detailed moulded edge, above arched Gothic glazed doors carved with acanthus, resting on a raised panelled door base with a deep plate-form base, (a design often seen in Thomas Chippendale work).

Circa 1766

English

Footnote:

The design for this bookcase can be seen in the Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale by Christopher Gilbert page 41 figure 65, as one of four bookcases commissioned by Sir Rowland Winn for his London townhouse in St James Square, or at Nostell Priory.