AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE CHESTS OF DRAWERS
inlaid throughout with chequered stringing and with a brushing slide over four graduated drawers, apparently retaining the original brass swan-neck handles, flanked by canted angles, on shaped bracket feet, 104cm wide x 59cm deep x 85.5cm high
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£12,000 - £18,000
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Hammer price:
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£30,000 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Provenance: Almost certainly supplied to The Rev. James Lushington of Rodmersham, Kent.
Edmund Henry Lushington (born 1766) of Park House, Maidstone, Kent, whose eldest son, Edmund
Law, married Cecilia, the sister of the poet, Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Thence by descent in the Lushington family.
