A GEORGE I GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED DOUBLE-DOMED BUREAU-CABINET, the silvered foliate and part-gadrooned urn-finials above a double-domed moulded cornice decorated overall with foliate-trails, the doors each with a raised arched rectangular bevelled plate within a trellis-pattern frame flanked by chinoiserie decoration with pagodas, courtly figures and animals and enclosing a fitted interior with compartments, shelves and secret drawers above arcaded pigeon-holes and three short drawers, the sides similarly decorated with foliate-sprays above a pair of candle-slides, the hinged fall-front decorated with maritime scenes and enclosing a further fitted interior with pigeon-holes, concave-fronted drawers above a well and a part leather-lined writing-surface, above two short and two long further graduated drawers, on a moulded plinth and later turned toupie feet, restorations to decoration, with paper label to the reverse 4072, the finials and flanking columns of the interior possibly associated

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A GEORGE I GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED DOUBLE-DOMED BUREAU-CABINET, the silvered foliate and part-gadrooned urn-finials above a double-domed moulded cornice decorated overall with foliate-trails, the doors each with a raised arched rectangular bevelled plate within a trellis-pattern frame flanked by chinoiserie decoration with pagodas, courtly figures and animals and enclosing a fitted interior with compartments, shelves and secret drawers above arcaded pigeon-holes and three short drawers, the sides similarly decorated with foliate-sprays above a pair of candle-slides, the hinged fall-front decorated with maritime scenes and enclosing a further fitted interior with pigeon-holes, concave-fronted drawers above a well and a part leather-lined writing-surface, above two short and two long further graduated drawers, on a moulded plinth and later turned toupie feet, restorations to decoration, with paper label to the reverse 4072, the finials and flanking columns of the interior possibly associated
40in. (101.5cm.) wide; 84½in. (214cm.) high; 22½in. (57cm.) deep

拍品專文

This multi-purpose cabinet, of tripartite form and featuring serpentine-headed glasses above candle-slide-supports and a secretaire above a chest of four drawers, corresponds to one bearing an early 18th Century label of John Coxed, cabinet-maker of the Swan, St. Paul's Church Yard, (see Sir A. Heal, The London Furniture Makers, 1953, p.229) who made and sold 'cabinets... and looking-glasses of all sorts'.

While the bureau-fall is japanned with an oriental landscape of lakeside pavillions and figures looking at a boat; the drawer and side decorations are of archers shooting at an exotic bird, insects watched by birds and giant flowering shrubs and relate closely to japan- patterns provided by Messrs Stalker and Parker in their Treatise of Japanning, 1688. A closely related green japanned bureau-cabinet was sold Christie's, 16 Nov. 1989, lot 128