A Fine late Pair of 19th Century bedside cabinets attributed to Wright and Mansfield London
A Fine late Pair of 19th Century bedside cabinets attributed to Wright and Mansfield London
A Fine late Pair of 19th Century bedside cabinets attributed to Wright and Mansfield London
A Fine late Pair of 19th Century bedside cabinets attributed to Wright and Mansfield London
A Fine late Pair of 19th Century bedside cabinets attributed to Wright and Mansfield London
A Fine late Pair of 19th Century bedside cabinets attributed to Wright and Mansfield London
A Fine late Pair of 19th Century bedside cabinets attributed to Wright and Mansfield London
A Fine late Pair of 19th Century bedside cabinets attributed to Wright and Mansfield London
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A Fine late Pair of 19th Century bedside cabinets attributed to Wright and Mansfield London

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A Fine late Pair of 19th Century bedside cabinets attributed to Wright and Mansfield London

The tamber fronts reveal beautifully fitted interior of drawers and arches with a tooled leather base.

The top section of the cabinets is fitted with a rail type mechanism that allows it to swivel into place revealing a timber lined secret compartment.

There are two wooden framed beveled plate glass slides, each with an engraved plaque: Reg No. 577552 the other Patent No 24603.

The bases are fitted with one, three drawers the other with shelves for paperwork.

The quality of this craftsmanship is rarely seen out of institutions and private collections.

Wright & Mansfield, the partnership of Alfred Wright, a cabinet maker and Thomas Mansfield, a decorator, were one of the finest makers of marquetry furniture in London, working from circa 1860 to 1886. They were established at 3 Great Portland Street, and subsequently moved to 104 New Bond Street, London, until they closed in 1886.
Despite their comparatively short commercial career they were the leading exponents of Adam and Sheraton Revival furniture of their time, and produced some spectacular furniture.
The magazine 'The Cabinet Maker & Art Furnisher', vol. VII, July 1, 1886, reported about Wright and Mansfield that, ""they must be accounted the leaders of that passing fashion which has happily brought back into our houses many of the charming shapes of the renowned eighteenth century cabinet makers .... the best forms of Chippendale, Hepplewhite and particularly Sheraton have been made to live again under the renovating influence of these able manufacturers"".
The firm exhibited to great aclaim at the International Exhibitions of 1862, 1867 and 1876 in London, Paris and Philidelphia.
At the 1867 Paris Universelle Exposition, a remarkable satinwood, marquetry, bronze and Wedgwood mounted cabinet by the firm won a Gold medal, the only time such an honour was bestowed upon an English cabinet maker by the French judges. The Gold medal was presented personally to Wright & Mansfield by the Emperor Napoleon III. The cabinet was purchased by the South Kensington Museum, London (later the Victoria and Albert Museum) for the extraordinary sum, in those days, of £800. It remains in in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum today.