Lot 154
154
The Property of the late H. D. CONSTANTINE, Esq., Sold by Order of the Executors
A FLEMISH BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CABINET-ON-STAND with stepped hinged coffered top enclosing a well, above a pair of doors each decorated with a panel of chinoiserie figures in a landscape, in a scrolling floral border and enclosing an interior with six variously-sized drawers simulated as eight drawers, each decorated with a painted landscape scene, the central drawer with a lute-player, the reverses of the doors with elegant ladies on terraces above one long drawer, on a George III stand decorated overall with scrolling foliage and flowers with plain frieze, pierced fretwork angles and on chamfered square legs, second quarter 17th Century, restorations

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A FLEMISH BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CABINET-ON-STAND with stepped hinged coffered top enclosing a well, above a pair of doors each decorated with a panel of chinoiserie figures in a landscape, in a scrolling floral border and enclosing an interior with six variously-sized drawers simulated as eight drawers, each decorated with a painted landscape scene, the central drawer with a lute-player, the reverses of the doors with elegant ladies on terraces above one long drawer, on a George III stand decorated overall with scrolling foliage and flowers with plain frieze, pierced fretwork angles and on chamfered square legs, second quarter 17th Century, restorations
16½in. (42cm.) wide; 44¾in. (114cm.) high; 10in. (25.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The shape of this cabinet and its scrolling floral border are close to Venetian lacquerwork of the last quarter of the 16th Century (see: H. Huth, Lacquer of the West, 1971, pl.14 and pl.17). An English cabinet of the first quarter of the 17th Century, and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has doors decorated with similar chinoiserie scenes (see: H. Huth, op.cit, pl.39).

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