AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK AND EBONISED FOLIO-CABINET

BY JOHNSTONE AND JEANES

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK AND EBONISED FOLIO-CABINET
By Johnstone and Jeanes
The moulded rectangular top inlaid with geometrical banding above two frieze drawers, and above a pair of panelled doors enclosing three slides and a further door to the left enclosing three shelves, on a moulded plinth base, the hinges stamped '...PATENT', the top of one drawer stamped 'JOHNSTONE, & JEANES 67 NEW BOND STREET LONDON 64322'
40 in. (101.5 cm.) high; 63 in. (160 cm.) wide; 28½ in. (72.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Supplied to Alexander Perceval, Esq. for Temple House, Co. Sligo, Ireland and by descent to the previous owner.

Lot Essay

The folio-cabinet formed part of library furniture commissioned around l860 by Alexander Perceval for his Italianate villa at Temple House, Co. Sligo. Designed in the mid-l9th Century Italianate manner with patteraed frieze and guttae-enriched pilasters, it is further enriched in the French manner with ribbon-banded tablets, whose corners are fretted after the Grecian fashion. It was executed by the Bond Street firm of Messrs. Johnstone and Jeanes, whose work in the Italian style was displayed at the London l85l International Exhibition and received praise for its chaste decoration.

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