A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE CHEST, BY HENRY KETTLE, CIRCA 1790

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE CHEST
BY HENRY KETTLE, CIRCA 1790
The shaped superstructure with inlaid quatrefoils, on satinwood-crossbanded serpentine top, above five graduated cedar-lined frieze drawers, each with original brass swing handles with acanthus-centred plate, with shaped apron and splayed bracket feet, the top drawer with label for 'HENRY KETTLE, NO. 23 ST PAUL's CHURCH-YARD, LONDON'
70 ½ in. (179 cm.) high; 36 ¼ in. (92 cm.) wide; 26 ¼ in. (67 cm.) deep

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Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 13 October 1994, lot 461.

Pre-Lot Text
88 FULHAM ROAD, SOLD UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MICHAEL HUGHES LTD AND PETER LIPITCH LTD (LOTS 1-76)

Literature
Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700 - 1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 294, fig. 550.