Lot 269
AFTER CHARLES FRANCIS ANNESLEY VOYSEY
MAHOGANY CORNER CABINET, CIRCA 1900
Auction: 8 May 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
the slatted heart-pierced back with overhanging cornice, above serpentine top with applied moulding and twin panelled doors with brass escutcheons enclosing a shelf, the whole raised on square supports with broad moulded feet
Dimensions
117cm wide, 166cm high, 74cm deep
Footnote
Literature: 'The Furnisher', Volume 1, 1899, p. 96 and supplement (illustrated)
Christies, London, 'Important 20th Century Decorative Arts', 9 November 2000, Lot 111
Note: Voysey designed a similar cabinet to the present example for the Pre-Raphaelite artist E.R. Hughes for the dining room of his house at 7 Lodge Place, London in 1898. In the following year detailed drawings of the cabinet appeared in The Furnisher magazine. The present example has minor stylistic and size discrepancies from the original Hughes commission and may have been made as a result of the publication of the original design.