SOLD - A Pair of Regency Period Brass-Inlaid & Mounted Rosewood Low Open Bookcases By George Oakley
Height: 37 " 95.5cm
Width: 70 " 178.5cm
Depth: 14" 35.5cm
Each with pierced anthemion three-quarter gallery, of breakfront form with plain frieze above a central section enclosing two adjustable shelves between tapering pilasters headed by sunflower paterae, in turn flanked by conforming end sections, with two adjustable shelves, on a moulded plinth with paw feet.
PROVENANCE:
Supplied to James Henry Leigh (d.1823) for Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire by George Oakley between 1813 and 1819.
The Stoneleigh bookcases of black-figured rosewood have Grecian palm-flowered china-rails and are embellished with brass bas-reliefs and 'boulle' inlay in the early 19th century antique / Louis Quatorze fashion to evoke the poetry deity Apollo. Golden sunflower bas-reliefs surmount their pilasters, which are inlaid with 'trompe l'oeil' flutes in altar-tripod fashion and are raised on the paws of the mythical griffin, sacred to the sun and poetry deity. Such French-fashioned furniture was a specialty of the Bond Street 'Court Cabinet-maker' George Oakley (d.1841).
 "ONE of a PAIR of Regency Bookcases By George Oakley")
