Attributed to GILES GRENDEY, CABINET-MAKER (1693-1780)

F2G0107

42.10 inch wide   98.40 inch high   22.80 inch deep

106.93 cm wide  249.94 cm high  57.91 cm deep

R. W. Symonds, ‘Giles Grendey and the Export Trade of English Furniture to Spain’, Apollo Magazine, 1935, pp. 337-342.

Christopher Gilbert, ‘Furniture by Giles Grendey for the Spanish Trade’, The Magazine Antiques, April 1971, pp. 544-550.

Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert (ed.), 'Dictionary of English Cabinet-Makers 1660-1840', Furniture History Society, W.S.Maney & Sons Ltd.

Monique Riccardi-Cubitt, 'The Art of the Cabinet', Thames & Hudson, London, 1992.

F. Morroni, ‘Arredi di Giles Grendey per il Re di Napoli’, Antologia delle Belle Arti, pp. 59-62, 2000.

Ralph Edwards and Margaret Jourdain, 'Georgian Cabinet Makers', Country Life Limited, 1962 edition.

Christopher Gilbert, 'Marked London Furniture 1700-1840', Furniture History Society, 1996.

The cresting and the mirror plates of a later date.

An early 18th century green lacquer bureau bookcase attributed to Giles Grendey (1693-1780), decorated throughout with gilt chinoiseries on a green ground, the cresting in the form of a broken swan's neck pediment. The upper section has two doors fitted with shaped mirror plates of traditional Grendey form which open to reveal,on the reverse, large scale Chinese figures and an interior fitted with small pigeon holes, bookshelves and drawers, with a pair of candle slides below; the fall front bureau section enclosing further drawers and pigeon holes. Below are two drawers in the frieze above four long graduating drawers, each retaining the original elaborate brass handles; the whole standing on bracket feet.

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