Provenance & Patina: Important English Furniture from a West Coast Collection
Provenance & Patina: Important English Furniture from a West Coast Collection
A George I Walnut Secretaire Cabinet by Old and Ody, Circa 1725
Auction Closed
June 18, 08:33 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
one drawer lining with a printed label 'WILLIAM OLD AND JOHN ODY At the Castle in St Paul's Church-Yard (over-against the South-Gate of ye Church) London Makes and Sells all sorts of Cane & Dutch Chairs, Chair Frames for Stuffing and Cane Lashes. And also all sorts of the best Looking-Glass & Cabinet-Work in Japan Walnut-Tree & Wainscot, at reasonable Rates.'
height 90 in.; width 43 in.; depth 20 ½ in.
228.6 cm; 109.2 cm; 52.1 cm
Private Collection, New York;
Rolleston, London.
C. Gilbert, A Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1986, fig. 600.
Furniture pieces with a label for William Old and John Ody are rare, with only a handful of examples currently identified. Formed around 1717, the partnership drew on Old’s experience as a turner and Ody’s as a cabinet-maker to cover a larger market. Their label intriguingly features a classical aedicula-like structure with Corinthian columns enclosing a medieval castle with crenellations and arrow-slits. Other pieces of case furniture by Old and Ody can be seen in the Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840,1 one of which sold at Christie’s New York, 18 October 2001, lot 266. A pair of chairs by Old and Ody, still bearing the trade label, is in the collection of the Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum), London (14/2006).
1 Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Woodbridge, 1996, pp. 358-360, figs. 699-703.