Object Description
A Library Bookcase in the Manner of the Adam Brothers
Constructed in a well figured mahogany, with fine carved detailing; of inverted four door breakfront form, rising from a plinth base with a stiff leaf carved ogee edging; the lower section having lockable fielded panel doors dressed with shaped urns, ribbands, garlands, and curlicues separated by stiles carved with pendant bellflowers, opening to reveal shelved interiors; over, the apron carved with vertical torsades set about a central elliptical flower petal cartouche, set with lambrequins; the upper section having lancet astragals with anthemion terminals to the lockable doors, with shelved interiors, betwixt carved stiles; the cornice carved with running foliate roundels set about a central profile ram’s head.
Circa 1890