A GEORGE II CARVED WALNUT ARMORIAL CARTOUCHE, CIRCA 1740

A GEORGE II CARVED WALNUT ARMORIAL CARTOUCHECIRCA 174033.5cm high, 39.5cm wideProvenance: Sotheby's, Important English Furniture, Ceramics and Silver from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Martin Gersh, 18th October 2006, Lot 26 ($17,640 incl. BP).So far it has not been possible to trace the families of the arms which are within the cartouche which are a chevron between three Catherine wheels impaling a chevron between in chief two treeseradicated and in base a crescent and on a chief three mullets.See: M. Harris & Sons Ltd., Old English Furniture, 1935, p. 102, for a line drawing of this cartouche.