George III Mahogany Miniature Chest

With two drawers over two drawers, splayed feet.

With rectangular caddy top over a brushing slide and four graduated drawers and raised on bracket feet. Prior Sotheby's NY sale. Oak secondary and brass handles.

With rectangular cornice with Greek key carving over two short and three long drawers flanked by carving, the base with three long drawers with identically carved sides raised on oge...

With detachable rectangular cornice with fluting and dentilled carving and gadrooning with canted corners over a conforming case with two over four graduated drawers flanked by flute...

Lovely little mahogany miniature chest of drawers from the 19th century from England chest of drawers with a double drawer in the top and the bottom drawer with the plinth integrated...

English Late George III (circa 1800) mahogany bow fronted chest of drawers with 3 long drawers with lion mask pulls & flanked by reeded outset angles.

George III mahogany chest of drawers, circa 1800. With a two board top with molded front and side edges, two top drawers and 3 graduated lower drawers all with cock beaded moldings a...

A Good Quality And Charming Early 19th Century Mahogany Miniature Chest, Having Well Figured Top Over Three Long Drawers With Original Brass Knobs And Boxwood Inlaid Escutcheons, Over Elegant Shaped Apron With Original Splayed Bracket Feet.  There is regular debate over whether miniature furniture was made as an apprentice piece, which is when a craftsmen who was looking for a job at a workshop would create something to showcase their talents. Or whether it was made as a travelling salesmans sample piece, which is when a few items were produced as scale models but a well established workshop as a form of physical catalogue in advance of a travelling salesman’s road trip around the country, for him to use to try and fill his order book with full size counterparts. We believe that this particular little Georgian Miniature Chest was probably made as an apprentice piece, due to the relative simplicity of it, combined with the exceptional execution, which maybe suggests that somebody was very much trying to impress somebody else. It is also slightly unusual in form, which again suggests it was made more as a one off item with a specific purpose, as opposed to a scale model of other items. It is certainly a charming piece of antique miniature furniture...