A SPANISH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD, EBONY AND TORTOISESHELL CABINET-ON-STAND, the breakfront rectangular cornice with velvet-lined frieze headed by flaming finials (one lacking) above a central door in the form of a columned portico centred by a niche with a figure of Minerva enclosing four bone-inlaid drawers, flanked by four drawers to each side, the sides with carrying-handles, on bun feet, the walnut stand with shaped end-supports joined by scrolled iron stretchers, 19th Century, with label typed in ink CECILIA, COUNTESS OF STRATHMORE | Christie's

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A SPANISH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD, EBONY AND TORTOISESHELL CABINET-ON-STAND, the breakfront rectangular cornice with velvet-lined frieze headed by flaming finials (one lacking) above a central door in the form of a columned portico centred by a niche with a figure of Minerva enclosing four bone-inlaid drawers, flanked by four drawers to each side, the sides with carrying-handles, on bun feet, the walnut stand with shaped end-supports joined by scrolled iron stretchers, 19th Century, with label typed in ink CECILIA, COUNTESS OF STRATHMORE

細節

A SPANISH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD, EBONY AND TORTOISESHELL CABINET-ON-STAND, the breakfront rectangular cornice with velvet-lined frieze headed by flaming finials (one lacking) above a central door in the form of a columned portico centred by a niche with a figure of Minerva enclosing four bone-inlaid drawers, flanked by four drawers to each side, the sides with carrying-handles, on bun feet, the walnut stand with shaped end-supports joined by scrolled iron stretchers, 19th Century, with label typed in ink CECILIA, COUNTESS OF STRATHMORE
57in. (145cm.) wide; 71½in. (181.5cm.) high; 21in. (53.5cm.) deep

來源

Nina Cecilia Countess of Strathmore (died 1938), daughter of Rev. Charles William Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck, and wife of Claude George, 14th Earl of Strathmore, and thence by descent