Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 3rd October 2024
Lot 551
A DOCUMENTARY GEORGE III GONCALO ALVES SERPENTINE CHEST
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £5670
Inc. Buyers Premium
Description
A DOCUMENTARY GEORGE III GONCALO ALVES SERPENTINE CHEST
BY JOHN TEAGUE, DATED '1779'
inlaid with stringing, the top with crossbanding above a brushing slide and four long graduated crossbanded drawers fitted with probably original gilt brass Rococo handles and escutcheons on shaped and inlaid bracket feet, the inside of the back boards signed 'J N Teague, Falm, 1779'
87cm high, 100cm wide, 52.8cm deep
Provenance
Glen House, Bruton.
Purchased from Avon Antiques, Bradford on Avon.
Catalogue Note
The present lot is listed in Beard (G) and Gilbert (C), Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660 - 1840, published by FHS, 1986, p. 880 as 'J. Teague (Falm)outh, Cornwall, Pencil inscription on back board of X-banded mahogany serpentine chest of drawers formerly in the possession of Avon Antiques. Probably: Teague, John, Truro, Cornwall (1760's - 1789)'.