Lot Essay
A reference is made to technique of marble wood, which is essentially compressed wood shavings, in Victor Chinnery Oak Furniture, The British Tradition, Woodbridge 1979, page 153
Details
An oak press cupboard, English, late 17th century
with dentil moulded cornice and rosette filled guilloche projecting frieze, on ring-turned supports, with a pair of doors and a central panel centred with marblewood panels and flanked by rosette and stiff-leaf carved uprights which slide to conceal a lock, above a pair of four panel doors between stop-fluted stiles, branded R.M and E.H twice -- 63in. (160cm.) wide, 67in. (171cm.) high, 25in. (64cm.) deep
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with dentil moulded cornice and rosette filled guilloche projecting frieze, on ring-turned supports, with a pair of doors and a central panel centred with marblewood panels and flanked by rosette and stiff-leaf carved uprights which slide to conceal a lock, above a pair of four panel doors between stop-fluted stiles, branded R.M and E.H twice -- 63in. (160cm.) wide, 67in. (171cm.) high, 25in. (64cm.) deep
See Illustration
Provenance
Boughton Monchelsea House, Kent.