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This quality 'Sheraton revival' mahogany breakfront bookcase (stamped Lamb & Co) is rather unusual having glazed doors to the lower and upper section. The oak lined drawers featuring quartered fans and boxwood and ebony line inlays and retain their original brass swan neck handles. The cornice being of a dentil form and features inlaid detail. The glazed doors of the bookcase being of an astragal design.
Lambs of Manchester were a renowned cabinet making firm, founded by James Lamb. He was a Manchester cabinetmaker who started in the mid Victorian era. James Lamb was born in 1816, he joined the family business and turned it into a high class interior design, decorating and furnishing firm. The firm had a cabinet making workshop in Castleford and their main gallery in John Dalton Street, Manchester, with vast furniture showrooms over three floors showing their quality pieces for sale. Lambs of Manchester was to go onto international success winning medals at the London 1862 Exhibition and the Paris 1867 Exhibition.
measurements
Height:
244 cm
Width:
203 cm
Depth:
48 cm
measurements
declaration
Philip Hunt Antiques has clarified that the Sheraton Revival Mahogany Breakfront Bookcase (LA460561) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1880