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Description: An early Victorian mahogany pedestal sideboard by Arthur Blain & Son from Liverpool, Model 599 (stamped), circa 1840, quarter gallery back on an inverted front over one long frieze drawer flanked by twin short drawers, raised on twin cupboards enclosing a single shelf over a wine storage drawer, pedestals united by another drawer, raised on a plinth feet. 125cm H x 184cm W x 62cm D Note: Arthur Blain who established the cabinet making business in the William IV period of 1835, at 35 Paradise Street, Liverpool. The earliest examples are stamped with just A Blain Liverpool and the later Victorian pieces carry the A Blain & Sons stamp. Arthur Blain died in 1868 when the business was continued by Arthur’s son, William Hughes Blain who died in 1909. Their works were recorded in ‘The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers’, 1660-1840, by Beard & Giblert, Maney 1986. Provenance: The content of Wartnaby Castle in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, the property is mentioned Nicholas Pevsner's The Building of England and noted as a substantial house in the Little Belvoir Estate built in 1839 and enlarged in the mid 19th century.