A Mid-19thC Oak Chest of Drawers sub-Architectural & Garden marked for Francesco Bartolozzi RA

marked for Francesco Bartolozzi RA after Hamilton under glass

The framers label for The Chapman Brothers suggests that the owner was keen to use a well established

uncleaned and unframed and is in as found order with losses

For some years

The Paris salon thought animal subjects too common for fine art

A Mid-19thC Oak Chest of Drawers sub-Architectural & Garden marked for Francesco Bartolozzi RAOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1850Width: 37Height: 39. 5Depth: 18The wonderfully coloured oak carcass with a beautifully aged patination having an arrangement of two short and three long graduated cockbeaded drawers with turned knob handles and an unusual triple banded top frieze to a shaped lower apron and standing on bracket feet, the whole surviving from early Victorian period England. The chest shows some generic