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Lot 819
A mahogany drinks cabinet, the top with a boxwood strung and crossbanded border, above two doors, each inlaid with an oval and further shell, enclosing an interior with mirrored back and shelf, the base on square tapering legs with brass castors, constructed from old timber, 130cm high, 78cm wide.
Lot 10
A George II carved walnut side chair in the manner of Giles Grendey The shaped back above a vase shaped splat and bowed drop-in seat upholstered in teal silk damask, on cabriole shell and trailing bellflower carved legs, on claw and ball feet, stamped W.R to the back seat rail, 55cm wide, 50cm deep, 100cm high, seat height 48cm. The chair offered here is virtually identical to a set of six sold Christie’s London, 15 Nov 2017, lot 153 and a single example sold Christie’s New York, 22 October 2010, lot 386. All these chairs are closely related to a set of six in the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by the celebrated Clerkenwell cabinet-maker and upholsterer Giles Grendey (d. 1780), two of which carry labels 'GILES GRENDEY, In St. John's-Square, Clerkenwell, LONDON, Makes and Sells all Sorts of Cabinet- Goods, Chairs and Glasses' (illustrated C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 242, fig. 434). A further labelled suite of similar seat-furniture by Grendey and formerly in the collection of the late J. S. Phipps, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 21 November 1981, lots 233-235. Another chair with identical back is illustrated in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., 1954, vol. I, p. 254, fig. 85. A number of chairs from Grendey's workshop bear the stamp of his journeymen, some of which are recorded in the archives preserved in the Public Records Office. A suite of chairs supplied by Grendey at Gunton Park, Norfolk (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, London, 1996, p. 243, fig. 437) is identically stamped 'WB' and this stamp probably relates to William House, employed at Grendey's Clerkenwell workshop from 14 April 1747 (G. Beard and C. Gilbert, eds., Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1986, pp.371-2). Similar stamps 'WF' and ‘WH' appear on numerous chairs of known Grendey models, including a set of dining-chairs with identical legs and scallop backs almost certainly supplied by Grendey to John, 1st Earl Poulett for Hinton House, Somerset, and the suite of chairs at Longford Castle, Wiltshire.
Lot 86
A large early Victorian pine six-leg table, dated 1848 The six-plank top with cleated ends and raised on baluster-turned legs with block feet and square stretchers, with cabinet-maker's pencil inscriptions to the underside, 'J Elliot Jany 13 1849 and Jeremiah Wraight 1848' to the underside of the top within the leg recesses, the base retaining much of the original ochre paint, 361cm long, 122cm wide, 74cm high. Provenance: New Hall, Dymchurch, Kent. New Hall housed the Governors of the Marsh and was used as a courtroom for the Romney Marsh area; it is here that meetings were held by the Lords of the Level, Jurats and Bailiffs to discuss and rule the Marshland which was their domain. In 1797 a Gaol was built which was in use until 1866 when the New Romney constables were superseded by the County Police. New Hall, Dymchurch was last used as a local court house in1951 and is now a Museum. Although a Jeremiah Wraight is not listed as a cabinet-maker in G.Beard & C.Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, there is a John Wraight listed as working at High St, Folkestone, Kent in 1789, who is likely to be a relation (see p.1003/4).
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