In the manner of Thomas Jeckyll, an oak hanging cabinet, c. 1860s, with raised gallery

In the manner of Thomas Jeckyll, an oak hanging cabinet, c. 1860's, with raised gallery incorporating sunflower lunettes and honeysuckle, above a pair of fielded panel doors with convex roundels, carved with birds and an under-tier with balustrade and shaped apron. 76cm by 78cm by 26cm  Notes to this lot: Thomas Jeckyll designed a significant amount of furniture, all bespoke and custom-make for specific interiors, using a variety of cabinet-making firms. This, along with the fact that there are only a handful of documented commissions to reference, make attribution difficult. The current wall cabinet has certain characteristics that suggest it could have been designed by Jeckyll. It dates to the 1860s, and his Old Heath Hall (later Ken Hill) commison for Edward Green between the years of1865-1876 provides a potentially useful comparison. The repeating sunflower and central honeysuckle motif perhaps anticipates his more recognisible work for Barnard Bishop and Barnards in the 1870s, and a spindle balustrade is incorporated in several pieces of furniture for Green. The roundels are also interesting, Jeckyll used this device to introduce carved marble portraits of Edward Green's children, within subsidualry Oriental roundels, in the overmantel for the parllour at Old Heath Hall, now in the collection of Leeds Museum and Art Galleries, Lotherton Hall. The depiction of the song birds is also typical of Jeckyll's early work, notobaly his Vienna Gates of 1867. Further reading Susan Weber Soros and Catherine Arbuthnott, Thomas Jeckyll: Architect and Designer, published by The Bard Graduate Centre and Yale Press 2003, Christies sale, Ken Hill auction catalogue Monday 13th September 1999.