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19TH CENTURY
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A CHINESE-EXPORT BRASS-MOUNTED COROMANDEL-LACQUER CABINET ON A SILVERED STAND
19th Century
The cabinet decorated overall with polychrome scenes depicting an elder riding an ox over the bridge with a pagoda on the left and surrounded by rocks and trees, the right side depicting a man fishing at night, the rectangular top with a cornucopia, above a pair of doors enclosing one long drawer above six small drawers and a door enclosing six smaller drawers, on a stand with a gadrooned frieze above a pierced apron depicting putti within pierced scrolling foliage and green-painted S-scrolls, flanked by a herm figure to each corner, on scrolled leaf-wraped cabriole legs, the underside with label 'FARLEY', the reverse with initials 'C.M.'
58 in. (147.5 cm.) high; 45 in. (114.5 cm.) wide; 22 in. (57 cm.) deep
19th Century
The cabinet decorated overall with polychrome scenes depicting an elder riding an ox over the bridge with a pagoda on the left and surrounded by rocks and trees, the right side depicting a man fishing at night, the rectangular top with a cornucopia, above a pair of doors enclosing one long drawer above six small drawers and a door enclosing six smaller drawers, on a stand with a gadrooned frieze above a pierced apron depicting putti within pierced scrolling foliage and green-painted S-scrolls, flanked by a herm figure to each corner, on scrolled leaf-wraped cabriole legs, the underside with label 'FARLEY', the reverse with initials 'C.M.'
58 in. (147.5 cm.) high; 45 in. (114.5 cm.) wide; 22 in. (57 cm.) deep
Provenance
Sir Harold and Lady Zia Wernher, Grosvenor Square, London and thence by descent.
Literature
Inventory of Furniture, Pictures and other Effects, The Property of Major General Sir H. A. Wernher, K.C.V.O., 15 Grosvenor Square, London W1, April 1947, p. 3 (Wernher Archives).
'The Mayfair flat of Sir Harold Wernher, Bt., and Lady Zia Wernher', The Antiques Collector, December 1960, p. 208 (illustrated).
'The Mayfair flat of Sir Harold Wernher, Bt., and Lady Zia Wernher', The Antiques Collector, December 1960, p. 208 (illustrated).