A pair of George III 'Hepplewhite' mahogany breakfront side cabinets

A pair of George III 'Hepplewhite' mahogany breakfront side cabinets, each with a reeded edge top, above a frieze drawer and above a brass mesh and pleated silk cupboard door, enclosing an adjustable shelf, flanked by a pair of rectangular tablets, the sides with further panelled book cupbpoards, each enclosing an adjustable shelf, 81.5cm high, 81.8cm wide, 54.5cm deep. (2)

Provenance:

Bulstrode Park, Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire.

Purchased from A. Cook, Wigmore Street, London, 16th April, 1962 for a £1,020.

From the estate of the late Lady Dodds.

This fine pair of cabinets can be seen in the photograph below gracing one of the corridors at Bulstrode Park c.1899. A park has existed at Bulstrode since the early Middle Ages and was once owned by 'Hanging' Judge Jeffreys, the Lord Chancellor of England. By the 18th century the house and estate had passed to the Bentinck family. The wife of the 2nd Duke of Portland, Margaret Bentinck, housed her natural history and antiquities collection at Bulstrode. The house was remodelled in 1806-1809 by James Wyatt and subsequently came into the possession of the 11th Duke of Somerset.