A NORTH EUROPEAN CREAM AND POLYCHROME-JAPANNED CABINET ON AN ASSOCIATED GEORGE II GILTWOOD STAND

THE CABINET EARLY 18TH CENTURY, THE STAND CIRCA 1745 AND REDUCED IN WIDTH TO FIT THE CABINET

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A NORTH EUROPEAN CREAM AND POLYCHROME-JAPANNED CABINET ON AN ASSOCIATED GEORGE II GILTWOOD STAND
The cabinet early 18th century, the stand circa 1745 and reduced in width to fit the cabinet
The rectangular cabinet with a pair of doors decorated with birds among a rocky landscape with pagodas and flowering shrubs, the sides similarly decorated, enclosing an nashiji-type gilt-decorated scarlet interior fitted with an arrangement of ten drawers, the stand with a frieze of panelled acanthus interspersed by pierced confronting C-scrolls above a shaped apron, on acanthus and husk-headed cabriole legs with dolphin-carved pad feet, with the ink inscriptions D-482x and NYD667, the stand regilt
45in. (114.5cm.) high overall, 23¾in. (60cm.) wide, 14in. (35.5cm.) deep

來源

With French and Co., Inc., New York.
The late Lillian S. Whitmarsh, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 7-8 April 1961, lot 347.
The property of a Gentleman, sold in these Rooms, 2 February 1978, lot 115 ($8,250).
Acquired from Devenish & Co., New York.

拍品專文

The cabinet decoration depicting large flowering trees and fantastical views of terraced pagodas rising from rocky knolls derives from patterns issued in John Stalker and George Parker's Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing of 1688. The form and decoration of this cabinet was inspired by Oriental prototypes imported in great numbers as trade flourished with the restoration of Charles II in 1660. The taste for lacquer became 'status symbols' for royalty and member of the inner court. A pair of seventeenth century japanned cabinets similarly decorated on a white ground on stands designed by Royal cabinetmaker James Moore form part of the noted collection at Boughton House, Northamptonshire (see T. Murdoch, ed., Boughton House: The English Versailles, London, 1992, col.pl.80). Other similar white japanned cabinets were produced by Gerard Dagley (d.1714) in Berlin (see M. Jarry, Chinoiseries, Paris, 1981, p.156, pl.166 and H. Huth, Lacquer of the West, London, 1971, figs.160-161), as well as in Holland (M. Jarry, op.cit.p.137, pl.142). A William and Mary example was sold the property of a Lady, Christie's London, 4 July 1996, lot 364.

Examples of mid-Georgian furniture featuring unusual dolphin-form feet are discussed in the footnote to lot 172.