Sotheby's: English and Continental Furniture Part II: Lot 50
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CELLARET CIRCA 1750
Estimated Price:
£40,000 - £60,000Realised Price:
£43,200 ($78,545)
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the oval top of coopered construction bound with two wide brass bands and lion mask handles, on a moulded base and cabriole legs carved at the knees with shells and acanthus, on a scale-carved ground with shell-carved scroll toes and moulded blocks
PROVENANCE
Percival D. Griffiths, Sandridgebury, St. Albans, his sale, Christie's, London, 10th May, 1939, lot 162;
Frederick Poke, Langholm, Parkside, Wimbledon Common
Thence by descent
EXHIBITED
On loan to the Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, 1982-1997
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES
R. W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, 1929, p. 21, fig. 8
A cellaret of the identical model alleged to have come from the Percival Griffiths collection, was sold from the collection of Samuel Messer, Christie's, 5 December, 1991, lot 107. Another of this model is recorded in the collection of the Earl of Ancaster at Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire, illustrated in C. H. Latham, In English Homes, 1904, vol. I, p. 61.
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