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18th-Century George II Mahogany Linen Press, Attributed, Giles Grendey
$14,500
£11,135.38
€12,761
CA$20,412.42
A$22,866.42
CHF 11,893.38
MX$278,923.13
NOK 151,418.54
SEK 142,776.89
DKK 95,244.64
About the Item
the reverse ogee moulded cornice and stylised Greek key frieze above a pair of shaped fielded doors with acanthus carved moulded borders, enclosing three linen slides, over two short drawers, with two long graduated drawers below, on shaped ogee bracket feet,
The distinctive serpentine shaped and fielded panelling of the doors on the present lot conform to a type much utilised and favoured by the cabinet maker Giles Grendey during the period, circa 1740-55. Among the various examples of Grendey furniture which incorporate this characteristic feature, perhaps the most notable comparable appears illustrated in both R. Edwards & M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, Circa 1700-1800, fig. 49, p. 144 and A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, pl. 373 & p. 210. The doors on this related clothes press also have carved moulded borders encompassing its fielded panels which are similar in style to those on the offered model.
Giles Grendey was a cabinetmaker and timber merchant with workshops near St. Paul’s, London. Unusually for an English cabinetmaker of his time, he had a broad international clientele: a fire that struck his premises in August 1731 destroyed over £1000 worth of furniture (approximately $37,000 in today’s currency) described as “pack’d for Exportation against the next morning.” In fact, Grendey’s most famous commission came from a Spanish client, the Duke of Infantado, for whose castle at Lazcano in northern Spain he supplied a suite of over seventy-seven pieces of furniture in the late 1730s
He seems not to have worked to any great extent for the nobility and gentry, and the portrait which emerges from the existing evidence is of a provincial immigrant to London who made solid, well designed, middle-class goods for the home market, specialised goods for the export trade, and may have been also active as a timber merchant; in 1762 he supplied mahogany to Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire.
- Creator:Giles Grendey (Cabinetmaker)
- Dimensions:Height: 68 in (172.72 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)Depth: 25 in (63.5 cm)
- Style:George II (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:1750-1759
- Date of Manufacture:1750
- Condition:
- Seller Location:Montreal, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU875141494612
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