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AN INDO-PORTUGUESE ROSEWOOD AND IVORY-INLAID CABINET-ON-STAND**
THE CABINET LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With raised superstructure fitted with four drawers above a panelled case fitted with two cupboard doors inlaid with scroll work enclosing inlaid figures of a man and a lion, opening to reveal an assortment of twelve drawers simulated to appear as sixteen inlaid throughout with Hispano-mauresque stars and foliate sprays on flat bun feet, the base similarly inlaid above later spiral twist legs and turned stretchers joined by wrought-iron supports-58¼in. (148cm.) high, 39in. (99cm.) wide, 20in. (50.7cm.) deep
This unusual cabinet, decorated with elaborate ivory inlays in the Mudéjar tradition, is virtually identical to a Spanish papelera dating from the first quarter of the 17th century (see M. Riccardi-Cubitt, The Art of the Cabinet, New York, 1992, p. 190, fig. 41).
THE CABINET LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With raised superstructure fitted with four drawers above a panelled case fitted with two cupboard doors inlaid with scroll work enclosing inlaid figures of a man and a lion, opening to reveal an assortment of twelve drawers simulated to appear as sixteen inlaid throughout with Hispano-mauresque stars and foliate sprays on flat bun feet, the base similarly inlaid above later spiral twist legs and turned stretchers joined by wrought-iron supports-58¼in. (148cm.) high, 39in. (99cm.) wide, 20in. (50.7cm.) deep
This unusual cabinet, decorated with elaborate ivory inlays in the Mudéjar tradition, is virtually identical to a Spanish papelera dating from the first quarter of the 17th century (see M. Riccardi-Cubitt, The Art of the Cabinet, New York, 1992, p. 190, fig. 41).