Lot 164Y
A Regency rosewood, yew wood and kingwood banded cabinet/bookcase possibly by John Mclean & Son
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20 November 2013, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,000 inc. premium
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A Regency rosewood, yew wood and kingwood banded cabinet/bookcase
possibly by John Mclean & Son
Applied with gilt brass mounts, the rectangular top with pierced brass three-quarter gallery above a pair of glazed doors enclosing an adjustable shelf, flanked by kingwood panels; the lower part with a further pair of glazed doors enclosing an adjustable shelf, flanked by similar panels, on turned legs and hairy paw cast gilt bronze feet, with paper label inside the upper section, THE SOMERSET HOUSE ART TREASURE EXHIBITION, 1979, Exhibit No F28, 73cm wide, 38cm deep, 129cm high (28.5in wide, 14.5in deep, 50.5in high).
Applied with gilt brass mounts, the rectangular top with pierced brass three-quarter gallery above a pair of glazed doors enclosing an adjustable shelf, flanked by kingwood panels; the lower part with a further pair of glazed doors enclosing an adjustable shelf, flanked by similar panels, on turned legs and hairy paw cast gilt bronze feet, with paper label inside the upper section, THE SOMERSET HOUSE ART TREASURE EXHIBITION, 1979, Exhibit No F28, 73cm wide, 38cm deep, 129cm high (28.5in wide, 14.5in deep, 50.5in high).
Footnotes
Exhibited:
The Somerset House Art Treasures Exhibition, 21 November-9 December 1979, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2 by the dealers Randolph, 99 High Street, Hadleigh, Suffolk (F.28).
The firm of McLean and son was established in London around 1770, trading from premises in Little Newport Street, Leicester Square, until 1783. By 1790 the firm had moved to 55 Upper Marylebone Street, later expanding to occupy premises in both Pancras Street and Upper Terrace and continuing in business until 1825. John McLean and son were cabinet-makers of the highest calibre, patronised by such leading connoisseurs as the 5th Earl of Jersey, for whom they worked extensively at Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, and the Earl's London mansion in Berkeley Square. In Thomas Sheraton's, The Cabinet Dictionary of 1803, McLean and sons are listed among the foremost English cabinet-makers of the period, and it is some indication of the esteem in which thy were held that Sheraton himself made use of one of their designs for a 'pouch table', which he illustrated in the Dictionary, (pl.65), remarking that, 'The design... was taken from one executed by Mr M'Lean in Mary-le-bone street, near Tottenham court road, who finishes small articles in the neatest manner'.
See S.Redburn, John McLean and Son, Furniture History, 1978, p31-37.
Saleroom notices
Please note: in the printed catalogue a star (*) appears to the side of the lot number, this is incorrect and what should appear is a 'y' to indicate that as this item contains rosewood it may be be subject to Cites if exported outside of the EU.