An English ebony, amboyna and marquetry side cabinet

BY MARSH AND JONES, LEEDS, CIRCA 1865

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An English ebony, amboyna and marquetry side cabinet
By Marsh and Jones, Leeds, Circa 1865
The canted rectangular breakfront top with pierced brass gallery to the rear edge above a frieze of stylised flowerheads within a guilloche band, with two arched panelled cupboard doors below inlaid with a vase of scrolling foliage and enclosing two adjustable shelves, above a further panel of stylised flowerheads and scrolling acanthus, with a mirrored recess to either side framed by a spirally-fluted solid ebony baluster column above a square panelled door, on a moulded plinth, with a paper label to the left side of the underside of the top MARSH AND JONES (LATE KENDELL & CO.) WORKMAN'S NAME and inscribed in ink 17322 Maclean
11 in. (104 cm.) high; 68½ in. (174 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

The ebony-veneered china cabinet, inlaid with rich foliate intarsia in the manner of J.K. Collings, Art Foliage l865, was executed by the Leeds firm of Marsh and Jones, who traded from l865 from the premises of John Kendell & Co. as upholsterers, cabinet-makers and general furnishers. They became celebrated for their 'Mediaeval' cabinet-work and employed as their art designer Charles Bevan of Cavendish Square, London. Their contemporary richly inlaid furnishings supplied in l865 for Titus Salt Junior of Baildon Lodge, Baildon is discussed by L.O.J. Boynton High Victorian Furniture: The Example of Marsh and Jones of Leeds, 'Furniture History' l967 (pp. 54 -9l).

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