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A pair of George III oak bookcases, circa 1780, in the manner of William Kent each moulded cornice with dentil frieze above a pair of wirework panelled doors carved with vitruvian scroll borders, opening to adjustable shelves, acanthus carved scroll terminals above floral branch carved pilasters, moulded and cabochon carved plinth bases, each 253cm high, 190cm wide, varying depths of 45cm deep and 48.5cm respectively For a bookcase with very similar carved detail to the pilasters see Christopher Gilbert, The Life & Work of Thomas Chippendale Volume II, Cassell Ltd, 1978, figs 73 and 74, page 48. The pair of bookcases commissioned by Sir Lawrence Dundas from Thomas Chippendale in 1764. See also Christopher Claxton Stevens and Stewart Whittington, 18th century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Antique Collectors Club 1983, page 188, for a collectors cabinet also demonstrating very similar detail and decoration to the pilasters. Provenance: Wormsley Park, Buckinghamshire Originally owned by the Scrope family since the late 16th century the estate belonged to Colonel Adrian Scrope the regicide. The house and estate was passed to his grandson John Scrope a baron of the Exchequer and as Scrope died without issue, his estate of Wormsley passed to the descendants of his sister Anne (died 1720), who had married Henry Fane of Brympton. Their second son, Thomas Fane, also a Bristol merchant, succeeded his uncle as Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis, beginning the Fane family's long association with the parliamentary seat of Lyme Regis. Fane also succeeded a distant cousin and became 8th Earl of Wesmoreland in 1762. The Fane family retained ownership of the house and estate until 1986 when they sold it to Sir Paul Getty. Condition report disclaimer