A QUEEN ANNE GILT-METAL MOUNTED RED AND GILT-JAPANNED CABINET-ON- SILVERED STAND

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A QUEEN ANNE GILT-METAL MOUNTED RED AND GILT-JAPANNED CABINET-ON- SILVERED STAND
The cabinet decorated overall with Chinese scenes with birds, flowers and buildings, with pierced hinges and lockplate, the rectangular top above a pair of doors enclosing an arrangment of eleven variously-sized simulated nashiji-lined drawers, the stand with an acanthus-carved moulding above a pierced foliage and strapwork apron centred by a shell with an Apollo mask, the sides each centred by a scallop shell, on gadrooned square tapering baluster legs headed by winged cherub masks, on gadrooned square tapering feet, refreshments and restorations to the decoration, the stand resilvered and with traces of earlier decoration, the handles later
66¼ in. (168.5 cm.) high; 44 in. (112 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep

來源

The late G.A.V Duckworth. Esq., Orchardleigh Park, offered Christie's house sale, 21 September 1987, lot 444.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The stand, with its Ionic hermed feet and ribbon-tied shell wrapped by Roman acanthus, is designed in the Louis Quatorze manner popularised by Daniel Marot (d. 1752), 'architect' to William III. Its design relates in particular to stands for two lacquer cabinets, that are likely to have been executed by Thomas and ReanéPelletier and supplied around 1704 for Kensington Palace by Gerrit Jensen (R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1977, rev. ed., p. 97, fig. 2; T. Murdoch, 'Jean, Renéand Thomas Pelletier: a Huguenot family of carvers and gilders in England 1682-1726 Part II', Burlington Magazine, June 1998, pp. 363-374, fig. 7). A related cabinet, red-japanned in imitation of lacquer in the manner described in Messrs. Stalker and Parker's, Treatise of Japanning, Varnishing and Guilding, 1688, was formerly in the E. F. Wythes Collection (Edwards, op.cit.., p. 94, fig. 11).