Marks & Inscriptions

Inscription in pencil, apparently a calculation, to one of the dust boards to the inside one of the library table’s pedestals, 1766/7

One of the dustboard’s to the library table, showing three different marks of different dates, a large Arabic ‘2’ in pencil, a ‘G’ in blue crayon, and ‘III’ made with a chisel, 1766/7

The corresponding drawer to the library table, the mark ‘III’ faintly chiselled in the upper right hand corner of the picture, 1766/7

The following three images are all of pieces of furniture made in 1767. The similarity of the marks suggests workshop practice at that date or, perhaps, that these three drawers were made by the same craftsman. 

A mark in pencil, a ‘1’ beneath a chevron denoting the drawer’s top edge, to the rear board of one of the drawers in Sir Rowland Winn’s press cupboard, 1767

A very similar mark in pencil, to the rear board of an interior drawer to the ‘artist’s’ table, 1767

A very similar mark to the rear board of one of the drawers in the clothes press made for Sabine Winn, 1766/7

Pencilled numbers to the apertures which house small drawers inside the writing drawer in Sabine Winn’s ‘secretary’, 1766

The number ‘6’ in pencil to the rear board of one of the small drawers to the interior of the writing drawer inside Sabine Winn’s ‘secretary’, 1766

Pencilled ‘4’ to rear board of one of the drawers in the mahogany counter, 1771

A pencilled ‘4’ to the underside of one of the small drawers to the medal case, 1767

A pencilled ‘6’ to one of the dustboards to the mahogany counter, 1771

Miscellaneous

Ink stains to a drawer to the writing drawer of Sabine Winn’s ‘secretary’, 1766

Reverse of drawer front of one of the drawers in one of the library table pedestals, showing solid mahogany drawer front, 1766/7

Detail showing drawer construction of one of the small drawers with curved front to the medal case, 1767

Three views of one of the central bank of graduated drawers in the medal case, 1767. These drawers have baseboards fixed by screws, which extend at either side to form the runners which sit in grooves inside the central aperture of the medal case.

One of the central drawers from the medal case

Detail of the underside of one of the central drawers from the medal case

Detail of the side view of one of the central drawers from the medal case

One of the drawers from the ‘artist’s’ table, fitted with a sliding cover, 1767

One of the divided trays fitted to the dressing drawer of Sir Rowland Winn’s dressing table, covered with original green baize or ‘cloth’, 1769

One of the lidded mahogany compartments to Sir Rowland Winn’s dressing table, 1769

Two of the lidded mahogany compartments to the japanned dressing stand, 1771

Green fittings inside the japanned dressing table, 1771, comprising a pin cushion and clothes brush

The drawer in the Pembroke games table, 1769, inlaid as a backgammon board

The underside of the drawer in the Pembroke games table, 1769, inlaid as a chessboard

One of the softwood drawers in the base of the japanned clothes press, which was covered in a red wash to simulate the Oriental method of decorating drawers, 1771

The reverse of the easel mirror to the fitted drawer of Sir Rowland Winn’s dressing table, above an aperture for a wash-hand bowl, 1769

The reverse of the easel mirror to the japanned dressing stand, 1771

The reverse of the easel mirror to the japanned dressing table, 1771

The reverse of the rising top of the ‘artist’s’ table, 1767

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05 Jun 2018