Lot Essay
This bureau-cabinet relates to 'a red Japan Cabinate', listed in the 1726 inventory of Erdigg, Denbigh, Wales.
Erdigg was acquired by John Mellor in 1716 and much of the major furniture was supplied by John Belchier of 'The Sun', St. Paul's Churchyard circa, 1720 (M. Drury, 'Early Eighteenth-Century Furniture at Erdigg, Apollo, July 1978, pp. 46-55, pl. 11.).
Belchier (d.1753) is known to have labelled a number of bureau-cabinets in walnut, red and green lacquer, illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, London, 1996, pp. 84-89.
Two similar green and gilt-japanned bureau-cabinets have been sold anonymously, in these Rooms; one formerly in the collection of C.B.D. Clarke, Esq. on 16 November 1989, lot 128, the other on 5 July 1990, lot 150.
Erdigg was acquired by John Mellor in 1716 and much of the major furniture was supplied by John Belchier of 'The Sun', St. Paul's Churchyard circa, 1720 (M. Drury, 'Early Eighteenth-Century Furniture at Erdigg, Apollo, July 1978, pp. 46-55, pl. 11.).
Belchier (d.1753) is known to have labelled a number of bureau-cabinets in walnut, red and green lacquer, illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, London, 1996, pp. 84-89.
Two similar green and gilt-japanned bureau-cabinets have been sold anonymously, in these Rooms; one formerly in the collection of C.B.D. Clarke, Esq. on 16 November 1989, lot 128, the other on 5 July 1990, lot 150.