Rare English George III Pair of Harewood Telescopic Knife/Cutlery Urns, Octagonal, Boxwood Inlay, Neoclassical Style, Circa 1780
FurnitureThis incredibly rare pair of late eighteenth-century English antique knife/cutlery boxes represents a collectible iteration of Georgian dining room finery. Created circa 1780 during the height of the George III period, these Sheraton knife urns departs from standard serpentine or shield-back cases, taking the highly sought-after form of Neoclassical octagonal urns. The vessels feature a brilliant telescopic lifting lid mechanism, engineered with a central rising wooden stem and expanding guide rods that smoothly raise and securely hold the top cap aloft to grant access to the tiered interior slot arrangements. The structures are beautifully veneered in precious, premium harewood, adorned with highly delicate boxwood stringing line accents and fitted with small refined silver mounts, keyholes, and turned top finials.
The tapering octagonal bodies are supported by elegant ring-turned column stems resting firmly on solid square plinth bases. Historically, such elaborate cutlery containers were commissioned in pairs by wealthy British households to display valuable solid silver or exotic bone-handled dining implements prominently on a grand sideboard table.
This magnificent set serves as a premier specimen of Georgian novelty cabinetry, making it an extraordinary investment piece for advanced collectors of rare English estate accessories and period woodenware.
Dimensions: width 10.5″ x depth 10.5″ x height 25″
$5,800.00
1 in stock
