A WILLIAM AND MARY BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED DOUBLE-DOMED CABINET-ON-CHEST, decorated overall with Chinoiserie figures hunting in a watery landscape with island temples and pagodas, bonsai trees, playful children, ducks and other birds, the moulded cornice above a pair of arched doors with ebaborate foliate-engraved brass escutcheons and hinges, enclosing a fitted interior with eleven variously-sized drawers, similarly decorated, the reverse of the doors depicting, respectively, a courtly lady and father and son playing with a Chinese peasant, the base section with three further graduated drawers, the sides simiarly decorated, above a waved apron and on later bun feet, with three later finials | Christie's

Lot 41

A WILLIAM AND MARY BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED DOUBLE-DOMED CABINET-ON-CHEST, decorated overall with Chinoiserie figures hunting in a watery landscape with island temples and pagodas, bonsai trees, playful children, ducks and other birds, the moulded cornice above a pair of arched doors with ebaborate foliate-engraved brass escutcheons and hinges, enclosing a fitted interior with eleven variously-sized drawers, similarly decorated, the reverse of the doors depicting, respectively, a courtly lady and father and son playing with a Chinese peasant, the base section with three further graduated drawers, the sides simiarly decorated, above a waved apron and on later bun feet, with three later finials

Details

A WILLIAM AND MARY BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED DOUBLE-DOMED CABINET-ON-CHEST, decorated overall with Chinoiserie figures hunting in a watery landscape with island temples and pagodas, bonsai trees, playful children, ducks and other birds, the moulded cornice above a pair of arched doors with ebaborate foliate-engraved brass escutcheons and hinges, enclosing a fitted interior with eleven variously-sized drawers, similarly decorated, the reverse of the doors depicting, respectively, a courtly lady and father and son playing with a Chinese peasant, the base section with three further graduated drawers, the sides simiarly decorated, above a waved apron and on later bun feet, with three later finials
38¾in. (98.5cm.) wide; 75½in. (192cm.) high; 20½in. (52cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A related double-domed cabinet with chest-of-drawers base, from the collection of C. Assheton-Smith, is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Age of Walnut, London, 1905, pl. X

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