A SATINWOOD, MAHOGANY AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED SIDE CABINET

19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS

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A SATINWOOD, MAHOGANY AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED SIDE CABINET
19th Century, possibly incorporating earlier elements
Crossbanded overall, the moulded concave-fronted top with a floral and fruiting spray within a dark-green laurel-leaf border, above a pair of doors inlaid with ovals, enclosing a paper-lined interior with one shelf, on a moulded plinth base, the reverse inscribed in chalk 'S98', and with fragmentary depository label 'Popes ... Chiswick'
33 in. (83.5 cm.) high; 52 in. (132 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep

來源

Mrs. C. A. Smith Bingham, sold Sotheby's London, 9 May 1969, lot 147.
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 21 May 1970, lot 85.
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 27 June 1985, lot 159.

拍品專文

The plinth-supported and hollow-fronted commode is conceived in the late 18th Century French/antique manner and displays medallions of rich feathered mahogany within golden satinwood tablets, which are banded by flowered and green-japanned ribbons. Flowered tablets frame the frieze, which is garlanded with honey-suckle and sweet-peas that climb from pots at the base of the pilasters; while the top, celebrating love's triumph, is painted with a vine-festooned wreath of roses and passion-flowers within a pelta-shaped frame of laurels. The fashion for colourful and richly flowered furniture was promoted by George Brookshaw, following his establishment in Mayfair in the late 1770s as Peintre Ebniste. His New Treatise on Flower Painting, 1791 devoted a plate (pl. 6), to the sweet pea (L. Wood, 'George Brookshaw: The case of the vanishing cabinet maker' Part I and II, Apollo, May and June 1991).