Tinker & Toad has dated this Regency Mahogany Chiffonier Bookcase to the Regency era.
Below sit a large and smaller drawer, both framed with ebony cockbeading and fitted with decorative circular metal handles. Between them is a striking brass-inlaid panel of scrolling foliate and classical ornament, providing a wonderful focal point.
The lower section incorporates a useful shelf and is enclosed by a pair of glazed doors with a highly decorative repeating brass crescent design. Ebony detailing continues around the doors and along the plinth, giving the cabinet a smart architectural appearance. The sweeping cabriole supports are carved to the knees with acanthus leaves, terminating in elegant scrolls centred by concentric circular roundels.
Below, the reverse-breakfront plinth stands on wonderfully carved lion’s paw feet to the front, enriched with further carved scrollwork, and bun feet to the rear. A beautifully proportioned and highly decorative piece of Regency furniture, with a rich, warm patina and particularly good detailing throughout.
Although traditionally described as a chiffonier bookcase, it would work equally well today as a bookcase, drinks cabinet or display cabinet.
The door lock catch is a later replacement. Key present
Tinker & Toad has dated this Regency Mahogany Chiffonier Bookcase to the Regency era.
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Regency Mahogany, Ebony & Brass Inlaid Chiffonier Bookcase, C. 1820/30
