BY SAMUEL WARING AND COMPANY, DESIGNED BY THOMAS CLARKE, LIVERPOOL, CIRCA 1886

Details

AN MID-VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD, EBONY AND IVORY-INLAID ‘EXHIBITION’ CABINET
BY SAMUEL WARING AND COMPANY, DESIGNED BY THOMAS CLARKE, LIVERPOOL, CIRCA 1886
The shaped cresting over a central cabinet door inlaid in ivory with an allegorical figure of Poetry and opening to a velvet-lined interior, above two central glazed compartments flanked by two drawers and a cabinet to each side with velvet-lined interior, on tapering feet and a shaped stand
98 in. (249 cm.) high; 65 in. (165 cm.) wide; 23 in. (58.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Liverpool International Exhibition of Navigation, Travelling, Commerce and Manufacture, 1886.

Special notice

Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.

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Lot Essay

This fine neo-Renaissance rosewood and ivory inlay cabinet was exhibited at the 1886 Liverpool International Exhibition by Samuel Waring & Co. of Bold Street, Liverpool. The exhibition, the first to be held outside the capital, was opened by Queen Victoria. The cabinet was illustrated, and extensively commented on in the October 1886 issue of the The Cabinet Maker and Art Furnisher magazine where the designer, Thomas Clarke, and Samuel Waring & Co. were commended for having successfully adapted ‘the Italian Renaissance to an English cabinet’, and creating ‘an extremely choice production’, which was ‘admirable’, ‘well balanced’ and ‘imposing’ p. 106).

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