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AN ENGLISH 'ANTIQUARIAN' ROSEWOOD, EBONY, STAINED BONE AND MARQUETRY CABINET-ON-CHEST

CONSTRUCTED USING PANELS OF 17TH CENTURY MARQUETRY, PROBABLY IN THE FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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AN ENGLISH 'ANTIQUARIAN' ROSEWOOD, EBONY, STAINED BONE AND MARQUETRY CABINET-ON-CHEST
CONSTRUCTED USING PANELS OF 17TH CENTURY MARQUETRY, PROBABLY IN THE FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The upper doors opening to oyster-veneered walnut drawers surrounding a door enclosing further oyster-veneered walnut drawers, the lower portion with a secretaire drawer above three long drawers, with 19th century enameled and rope-twist ring pulls to exterior, on later bun feet, bearing an old pencil inscription (possibly 18th century) to interior Lairy
75½ in. (192 cm.) high, 50½ in. (128 cm.) wide, 23 in. (58.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Right Honourable Viscountess Torrington, Yotes Court, Mereworth, Kent; Messrs. Foster, Yotes Court, The Contents of the Mansion, 1-3 October 1923, lot 439, lot 152.5s.
The Michael Winch Will Trust, Boughton Monchelsea Place, Kent; Christie's, South Kensington, 21 January 1998, lot 68.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This elaborately inlaid cabinet on chest was purchased by Lieutenant-Colonel G. B. Winch for Boughton Monchelsea Place, the house and estate he leased in 1903, and his heir and nephew, Michael Winch, subsequently purchased in 1960. The house dates from the Norman conquest with significant improvements made by 1575 and again around 1800. The cabinet was purchased in 1923 at a sale at Yotes Court, near Maidstone, together with 39 other lots for £838.11s, and the sale invoice and catalogue survive.

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