The highlight at Leeds was a George III mahogany bowfronted and boxwood strung sideboard. Measuring 5ft 8in by 2ft 2in by 3ft 1in (1.73m x 66cm x 94cm) it had a plain top above a central drawer and tambour slides flanked by oval inlaid doors on square section tapering legs. It made a multiple-estimate at £9600.
Other well-received entries included the cover lot: a well-worked mid-Victorian rosewood and boxwood inlaid centre table. The circular veneered top was adorned with a foliate scroll border with cartouches enclosing urns radiating to the centre within a further foliate band. Despite reveneering to the centre of the top, it sold at £4600.
Chairs also had a good run at Leeds with eight George IV rosewood and brass inlaid dining chairs, stamped W.Outram, Sheffield and C.S selling at £4400. William Outram was based at Sheffield 1814-1834.
There were few four-figure entries at Phillips’, Sevenoaks, but the star turn was a 19th century sideboard in George II style with an ebony strung and cross banded top that realised £2050.
Phillips, Leeds / Phillips, Sevenoaks, July 3
Buyer’s premium: 15/10 per cent
£9600 sideboard bid tips balance in North/South divide
FURNITURE brought the biggest money at the Northern and Southern branches of (at this point) Phillips’ provincial empire with Leeds taking the honours netting £146,000 from 250 lots against a Sevenoaks total of £100,545 from 886 lots.
