Lot Essay
This cabinet appears to be part of a set of which a narrower pair were advertised in the Catalogue of The Grosvenor House Antique Fair, 1991, p. 282.
The marble-topped pier table, whose plinth-supported and acanthus-wrapped 'console' trusses and laurel-wreathed enrichments portray the early 19th Century 'antique' manner, has brass inlay which recalls the fashionable 'Louis Quatorze' drawing-room style. Its 'arabesque' acanthus-scrolled frieze is executed in the late 17th Century style associated with the ébéniste A. C. Boulle (d.1732), and is typical of the work of specialist London inlayers such as Louis Le Gaigneur, whose Queen Street workshop was established in 1814-15.
A related rosewood side cabinet was offered by Sir John Howard-Lawson, Bt., in these Rooms, 7 July 1994, lot 150. It is likely to have been acquired for the Grecian drawing-room created by Henry Howard (d.1842) at Corby Castle, Cumberland in the second decade of the 19th Century.
The marble-topped pier table, whose plinth-supported and acanthus-wrapped 'console' trusses and laurel-wreathed enrichments portray the early 19th Century 'antique' manner, has brass inlay which recalls the fashionable 'Louis Quatorze' drawing-room style. Its 'arabesque' acanthus-scrolled frieze is executed in the late 17th Century style associated with the ébéniste A. C. Boulle (d.1732), and is typical of the work of specialist London inlayers such as Louis Le Gaigneur, whose Queen Street workshop was established in 1814-15.
A related rosewood side cabinet was offered by Sir John Howard-Lawson, Bt., in these Rooms, 7 July 1994, lot 150. It is likely to have been acquired for the Grecian drawing-room created by Henry Howard (d.1842) at Corby Castle, Cumberland in the second decade of the 19th Century.