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Lot Essay
The bookcase bears close comparison with both documented works by John Linnell, and others attributed to him.
In particular there are marked stylistic affinities with a breakfront clothes press commissioned by the 5th Earl of Carlisle for Castle Howard around 1780 and illustrated in Helena Hayward and Pat Kirkham, William and John Linnell, Eighteenth Century London Furniture Makers, London, 1980, vol. II, fig. 141. Similar circular drop handles feature on a pair of satinwood and marquetry pembroke tables produced for the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle around 1770, another for the Duke of Argyll at Inverary Castle in 1779 - 80, and a satinwood and rosewood chest supplied by Linnell to Robert Child for Osterley Park, Middlesex, in 1779 (Hayward & Kirkham, op cit, vol. II, p. 56, fig. 117).
In particular there are marked stylistic affinities with a breakfront clothes press commissioned by the 5th Earl of Carlisle for Castle Howard around 1780 and illustrated in Helena Hayward and Pat Kirkham, William and John Linnell, Eighteenth Century London Furniture Makers, London, 1980, vol. II, fig. 141. Similar circular drop handles feature on a pair of satinwood and marquetry pembroke tables produced for the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle around 1770, another for the Duke of Argyll at Inverary Castle in 1779 - 80, and a satinwood and rosewood chest supplied by Linnell to Robert Child for Osterley Park, Middlesex, in 1779 (Hayward & Kirkham, op cit, vol. II, p. 56, fig. 117).