Lot Essay
This cabinet, with its geometric inlay and columnar caryatid feet, typifies the exotic furniture manufactured for Portuguese traders at Indian and Goanese ports in the 17th century.
A virtually identical cabinet-on-stand is in the Museo Nacional de Arte Antiguo, Lisbon and is illustrated in L. Feduchi, A History of World Furniture, 1975, p. 446, fig. 839.
Similar cabinets on stands with identical drawer arrangements were sold at Christie's London, 29 November 1990, lot 265 and in these Rooms, 18 September 1993, lot 124.
A virtually identical cabinet-on-stand is in the Museo Nacional de Arte Antiguo, Lisbon and is illustrated in L. Feduchi, A History of World Furniture, 1975, p. 446, fig. 839.
Similar cabinets on stands with identical drawer arrangements were sold at Christie's London, 29 November 1990, lot 265 and in these Rooms, 18 September 1993, lot 124.