Details
A GEORGE II BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CORNER CABINET
CIRCA 1730
Decorated overall with floral decoration and Chinoserie scenes, the upper section with a pair of doors above a drawer and cupboard doors, decoration largely restored
88 (223.5 cm.) high, 41 ¾ in. (106 cm.) wide, 19 in. (48 cm.) deep
Provenance
Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914.
Literature
H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, London, p. 215, fig. 224.
D. Friedley, 'The Bequest of John L. Cadwalader', Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 9, May 1968, p. 111.
F. H. Hinckley, Queen Anne & Georgian Looking Glasses, New York, 1987, p. 40, pl. 14, fig. 22.

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