拍品專文
The bureau-cabinet's design, with arched domes in the Louis XIV mannner, corresponds with early 18th Century English examples in walnut or colourful japan. Its paradisical Dutch-style decoration of flowering shrubs accompanied by birds, butterflies, exotic and mythical animals together wih celebrating amorini with Fame's trumpet, derives from 17th Century Indian Palampore cotton hangings. Such exotic-veneered furniture, richly-inlaid with engraved ivory, was commissioned through the East India Company trading in Bengal and is particularly associated with Vizagapatam.
A bureau-cabinet with very similar decoration, including the unusual
amorini, and probably from the same workshop, was sold by D.J.Orde, Esq., in these Rooms, 25 November 1976, lot 120. Another, commissioned by Sir Matthew Decker, Bt., (d.1749), an East India Company Director, was sold from the collection of Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, in these Rooms, 6 July 1989, lot 88.
A bureau-cabinet with very similar decoration, including the unusual
amorini, and probably from the same workshop, was sold by D.J.Orde, Esq., in these Rooms, 25 November 1976, lot 120. Another, commissioned by Sir Matthew Decker, Bt., (d.1749), an East India Company Director, was sold from the collection of Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, in these Rooms, 6 July 1989, lot 88.