Strauss & co - 5 March 2018, Cape Town

81 186 AWilliam IV mahogany reclining armchair by George Minter the reclining back, padded scroll arms and seat upholstered in green dralon, the apron with a sliding footrest, on lappet-carved tapering legs with brass cappings and castors, stamped ‘G Minter, 10 GERARD ST, SOHO, W R flanking a crown, Patent No 2053’ R  -   NOTES George Minter of Soho. Minter was a cabinet-maker and upholsterer specializing in patent reclining chairs, who is first recorded in 1829 trading from various addresses in Soho until 1854 when he apparently ceased business. Several examples of Minter’s work are recorded, including a group of related seat furniture in Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840 , London, 1996, page 338, figs 649-651. 187 A mahogany collector’s cabinet on associated stand, 19th century and later the rectangular top above a pair of panelled doors enclosing two sets of eight graduated drawers, 58cm high, 69cmwide, 31cm deep , the stand with a frieze drawer supported on a pair of fluted front legs headed by ebonised plaster Egyptian terms, on a stepped plinth base with brass bun feet, 81cm high, 73cmwide, 35cm deep R  -   * This lot is not suitable for export 186 187