£9,000
Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art | 641
Auction: Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art
the egg and dart moulded breakfront cornice above a pair of astragal glazed doors with arch moulded tops, flanked and divided by square pilasters; the lower part with hinged flap cupboards enclosing shelves, on a moulded plinth base
Provenance:
Cusworth Hall, Yorkshire
Hollis & Webb, 14-23 October, 1952, Estate of the late Lady Isabella G. K. Battie-Wrightson, [one of] lots 565-568
Sotheby's New York, 28-29 October, 1988, Property of Claus van Bulow, Clarendon Court, Newport, Rhode Island
Freeman's Auctioneers, Philadelphia, 20 September, 2007, lot 124
Note: Cusworth Hall is a Grade I listed Georgian Palladian country house near Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The house was built for William Wrightson in 1740-45. The house stayed with members of the Wrightson family until 1952, when the contents were put up for sale to meet death duties. The house was subsequently sold to Doncaster Council and today is a venue and museum. The present lot, one of four bookcases originally from the library wing, was sold in 1952 as one of lots 565-568.