A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-INLAID AND MOUNTED SYCAMORE AND EBONISED CORNER CUPBOARDS

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A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-INLAID AND MOUNTED SYCAMORE AND EBONISED CORNER CUPBOARDS
Each with a later pink and grey-veined black portor marble top above three shelves, surrounded by trellis with red-decorated background, flanked on each side by panels, on turned sphere feet, one inscribed in chalk 'No. 1' the other 'No. 2', the red decoration possibly refreshed
37½ in. (95 cm.) high; 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) wide; 12¼ in. (31 cm.) deep (2)

Exhibited

Bedfordshire, Woburn Abbey, Henry Holland, 23 April-7 May 1971, cat. no. 26, fig. 11.

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Lot Essay

The Grecian-black and marble-topped cabinets, with their 'boulle-inlaid' and sunflowered patterae, are conceived in the elegant French/Grecian fashion introduced around 1800. Their trellised ormolu enrichments and spherical stump feet relate in particular to cabinet-work illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.

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