Lot 84
A George III secretaire bookcase attributed to Thomas Bradshaw
20 November 2013, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£5,000 - £7,000
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A George III secretaire bookcase attributed to Thomas Bradshaw
The upper part with a pierced fret-work broken swan-neck pediment centred by a fluted platform above a pair of astragal glazed doors enclosing adjustable shelves, the lower part with a rectangular moulded edge top above a secretaire drawer fitted with a later baize lined writing surface, two fret carved drawers, four other drawers and nine pigeon holes, three with shaped aprons above, with three long graduated drawers below, on blind fret carved bracket feet, 113cm wide, 59cm deep, 239cm high (44in wide, 23in deep, 94in high).
Footnotes
The above lot is related to a labelled bureau bookcase illustrated in C.Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840, plate 150 & 151, p.119, which was offered Bonhams London 16 July 2008, lot 59.
Thomas Bradshaw is listed in G.Beard & C.Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, p.99 as at 10 St.Paul's Churchyard 1754-75. He subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754 and was declared bankrupt in 1772. He probably was the same Thomas Bradshaw who supplied Sir John Griffin Griffin of Audley End with 'a neat gressing (sic) glass wth deal case & packing' costing £2 2s, in 1772.
See also Sotheby's, 30 June 2004 for a George III mahogany linen press, circa 1760, attributed to Thomas Bradshaw and another with identical pierced bracket feet sold Sotheby's New York, 10 November 1973, lot 141. A related unattributed bureau cabinet, formerly with Hotspur, was sold Christie's, Important English Furniture, 6 July 2000, lot 150. A secretaire bookcase with pierced cornice and blind-fret bracket feet, almost certainly attributable to Bradshaw and formerly with French & Co., New York, is illustrated in F.Lewis Hinckley, Metropolitan Furniture of the Georgian Years, 1988, p.138, Ill.212.