Lot 102
102
A DUTCH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED, BONE-INLAID, TORTOISESHELL AND EBONY CABINET-ON-STAND with hinged rectangular top, the interior lacking one panel, above two panelled doors with cushion and ribbed mouldings, the interior fitted with ten drawers with domed mouldings, around a pillared door enclosing a mirrored interior above one long drawer, previously fitted, and a slide, the sides with carrying-handles, the base with waved apron on turned ebonised legs joined by flat stretchers on later bun feet, mid-17th Century

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A DUTCH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED, BONE-INLAID, TORTOISESHELL AND EBONY CABINET-ON-STAND with hinged rectangular top, the interior lacking one panel, above two panelled doors with cushion and ribbed mouldings, the interior fitted with ten drawers with domed mouldings, around a pillared door enclosing a mirrored interior above one long drawer, previously fitted, and a slide, the sides with carrying-handles, the base with waved apron on turned ebonised legs joined by flat stretchers on later bun feet, mid-17th Century
34½in. (87.5cm.) wide; 59in. (150cm.) high; 16in. (41cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Writing about a related ebony and tortoiseshell cabinet mounted with brass in the Victorian & Albert Museum (no. W8-1965), Simon Jervis quoted Robert Spencer's statement of 1651 that the best choice for this type of cabinet was at Antwerp. See 'A tortoiseshell cabinet and its precursors', Victoria & Albert Museum Bulletin Vol IV, no. 4 1968, pp. 132-43

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