Lot 79
GEORGE III STYLE MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT SECRETAIRE LIBRARY BOOKCASE, BY ERNEST WILLIAM VARLEY Y
CIRCA 1913
Auction: 5 September 2018 at 11:00 BST
Description
the pagoda cresting with a pierced fretwork gallery surmounted by urn finials flanked by conforming side galleries, above a dentil moulded and blind-arch cornice above two pairs of glazed doors with Gothic astragals opening to shelves, the central doors flanked by stop-fluted turned columns with gilt brass Corinthian capitals, the outer doors with blind fret chamfered angles; the lower cabinet with a gadrooned edge over a carved tassel frieze and secretaire drawer fitted with drawers and pigeon holes and tambour fronted cupboard flanked by stop-fluted pilasters with gilt brass capitals, over a pair of moulded cupboard doors flanked by stop-fluted columns and banks of five graduated drawers with blind fret carved angles, on a gadrooned base with foliate carved bracket feet; the centre backboard carved 'E. W. Varley, Whitby, 1913'
Dimensions
244cm wide, 263cm high, 63cm deep
Footnote
Provenance:
Most likely commissioned by Sir Edward Mortimer Mountain, 1st Bt. (1872-1948)
Thence by descent
Purchased Christie's, London, Nov. 2013, lot 73