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A black and gold japanned Indiawork cabinet
decorated with panels of landscapes with figures, animals and buildings, within bands of scrolling foliage, the pedimented upper section with central drawer above a pair of doors enclosing an arrangement of ten drawers around a central cupboard, concealing numerous secret compartments, with carrying handles, English or Dutch, early 17th century -- 26½in. (67cm.) high, 22½in. (57.5cm.) wide
Literature:
Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition, Woodbridge, 1979, fig.2.238 and 2.238a.
Similar examples are illustrated in Christopher Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Vol. I, p. 47, no.35; and Ralph Edwards Dictionary of English Furniture, Revised Edition, 1953, p.162, fig.1. Also compare the ballot box made for the East India Co., dated 1619, now in the possession of The Worshipful Company of Saddlers
decorated with panels of landscapes with figures, animals and buildings, within bands of scrolling foliage, the pedimented upper section with central drawer above a pair of doors enclosing an arrangement of ten drawers around a central cupboard, concealing numerous secret compartments, with carrying handles, English or Dutch, early 17th century -- 26½in. (67cm.) high, 22½in. (57.5cm.) wide
Literature:
Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition, Woodbridge, 1979, fig.2.238 and 2.238a.
Similar examples are illustrated in Christopher Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Vol. I, p. 47, no.35; and Ralph Edwards Dictionary of English Furniture, Revised Edition, 1953, p.162, fig.1. Also compare the ballot box made for the East India Co., dated 1619, now in the possession of The Worshipful Company of Saddlers