Description & Technical information
A Regency brass mounted parcel gilt rosewood circular revolving bookcase.
Note: The bookcase retains much of the original gilding and the original brass gallery.
Date: circa 1820
Period: 19th century
Origin: English
Dimensions: 150 x 63.5 cm (59 x 25 inches)
Provenance: Frederick, 2nd Baron Hesketh (1916 - 1955), Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, England.
Private collection, England.
Apter Fredericks Ltd., London, England.
Literature: Thomas Hope, Household Furniture & Interior Decoration, 1807, pl. IX.
Margaret Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795 - 1820, 2nd revised edition, 1949, fig. 172.
Pauline Agius, Ackermann’s Regency Furniture & Interiors, 1984, p. 48.
Frances Collard, Regency Furniture, 2nd edition, 1985, p. 16.
Illustrated:
Christian, Lady Hesketh, ‘Easton Neston, Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Baroque Creation in Northamptonshire’, Architectural Digest, January 1991, p. 143.
Apter Fredericks Ltd., ‘Important English Furniture’, catalogue, 2013, p. 11.
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