A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BOOKCASE, English, circa 1755
Width: 5 ft 5 in; 165 cm
Depth: 1 ft 5 ½ in; 44.5 cm
Note: Attributed to William Vile, the bookcase has at some stage prior to 1931 been reduced in depth.
A drawing by William Kent, published in 1744, resembles the top section of the bookcase.
Provenance
Sir Stuart Montagu Samuel, 1st Baronet, Chelwood Vetchery, Nutley, Sussex, England;
M. Harris & Sons, London, England;
Collection of Bertie Coppinger Prichard, England;
Private collection, Scotland.
Literature
John Vardy, Some Designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. William Kent, 1744, plate 33.
Christopher Claxton Stevens and Stewart Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, 1983, p. 187.
Illustrated:
M. Harris & Sons, ‘A Catalogue and Index of Old Furniture and Works of Decorative Art’, 1931, vol. III, p. 340.
Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, revised edition, vol. I, 1954, p. 84, fig. 15.
