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Advertisement by Jeremy Ltd., London, Connoisseur, June 1978
A GEORGE II CABINET ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM VILE, English, circa 1750
Height: 6 ft 11 ½ in; 212 cm
Width: 3 ft 5 ½ in; 106 cm
Depth: 1 ft 9 ½ in; 55 cm
Width: 3 ft 5 ½ in; 106 cm
Depth: 1 ft 9 ½ in; 55 cm
4470441
£100,000 +
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Note: The mirror plates and back boards have been reinstated using period timber and mercury silvered mirror plates. The carved ogee bracket feet and brass handles and escutcheons are original...
Note: The mirror plates and back boards have been reinstated using period timber and mercury silvered mirror plates. The carved ogee bracket feet and brass handles and escutcheons are original to the piece.
Provenance
Jeremy Ltd., London, England;
Private collection, USA.
Exhibitions
The Somerset House Art Treasures Exhibition, London, 1979; with Jeremy Ltd.Literature
Illustrated:
Connoisseur, June 1978; advertisement with Jeremy Ltd.
The Somerset House Art Treasures Exhibition handbook, 1979, p. 44.
Graham Shearing, ‘Important Furniture’, Antique Collector, June 1979, p. 99.
Anne Stone, ‘The Rule of Taste’, Antique Collector, August 1979, p. 48.
Ronald Phillips, Fine Antique English Furniture, London 2019, pp. 16-19.
