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A DUTCH WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY LINEN-PRESS

The stepped chequer lined cornice centred by a lyre supporting scrolling foliage, above an inlaid frieze, fitted with a pair of panelled cupboard doors inlaid with panels of birds resting on vases supported by caryatids within a scrolled and boxwood lined border and enclosing four shelves and four drawers, the base fitted with three long graduated drawers flanked by fluted boxwood lined columns, the shaped apron centred by an applied c-scroll panel on fluted square supports
46in. (117cm) wide

Lot Essay

This linen-press with Apollo-lyre tablet and fluted enrichments, is embellished with flower-cornered panels such as feature on a cabinet executed in Amsterdam in the early 1790s by Jan Elder Glade (d.1825) (see R. Baarsden, De Amsterdamse meubell oterijen, Amsterdam 1992, fig13). The flowered inlay, with its birds and bracket-supported vases with arabesque nymph-caryatids reflects the antiquarian revival of the late seventeenth century style.

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