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A Pair of George III Breakfront Cabinets
Height: 32" 81.5cm The cabinets have mahogany tops banded with yew wood, with an additional inlaid chequer line and ebonised rule mouldings. Below are four graduated drawers to the centre section, each retaining their original handles, and a partridge-wood and yew -wood banded door, enclosing a cupboard, to each wing. The same chequer line inlay is also found on each door. English, Circa 1800 Partridge wood comes from Brazil, Guiana and the West Indian Islands, including Cuba. However, there is some confusion as to exactly which of a number of species used under this name was the correct partridge wood. It is one of the world's heaviest timbers weighing as much as 90 pounds per cubic foot and was formerly used by the Brazilians for boat building. Known in British Dockyards as cabbage wood, it first appeared in England in the later Eighteenth century and was used in small cabinets and as bandings on tables. We have had a number of nests of tables with partridge wood bandings. |
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