拍品专文
This drawing-room cabinet is conceived as a pier-commode-table with bookshelves and brass-galleried top for china-display and is embellished with a silky veneer of golden satinwood accompanied by hermed columns and stump feet. Its French/antique or Pompeiian style relates to that of the later 1780's such as was introduced by the architect Henry Holland (d.1806) in the library/saloon at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, figs. 301 and 302). Its form corresponds to a commode sketch that Messrs. Gillow of Oxford Street and Lancaster featured in their 1790 Estimate Sketch-Book (Gillow Mss. in Westminster Library; illustrated op.cit., fig. 123). A related door-fronted rosewood cabinet was invoiced by Gillow in 1801 to Luke Dillon, 2nd Lord Clonbrock for Clonbrock, Ireland, as 'A handsome Rosewood Commode for the Drawing Room with....brass rim round the top etc.' (Mr and Mrs Luke Dillon-Mahon, sold Christie's house sale, 1 November 1976, lot 67). This cabinet is also likely to have been executed by Gillows, whose trade with the West Indies provided them with the very finest satinwood.