拍品 149
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AN EARLY GEORGIAN LIMESTONE-PANELLED EBONISED CABINET-ON-STAND, the rectangular top with balustrade and central triangular pediment mounted with foliate scrolls, the front with twelve drawers panelled with limestone engraved with foliage and flanking a door and red marble columns with conforming panel, the door enclosing a mahogany-lined interior, the black and gilt-japanned stand with pierced fretwork frieze centred by an oval decorated with musical trophies, on square tapering legs, the cabinet early 18th Century, the stand late 18th Century

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AN EARLY GEORGIAN LIMESTONE-PANELLED EBONISED CABINET-ON-STAND, the rectangular top with balustrade and central triangular pediment mounted with foliate scrolls, the front with twelve drawers panelled with limestone engraved with foliage and flanking a door and red marble columns with conforming panel, the door enclosing a mahogany-lined interior, the black and gilt-japanned stand with pierced fretwork frieze centred by an oval decorated with musical trophies, on square tapering legs, the cabinet early 18th Century, the stand late 18th Century
40in. (102cm.) wide; 54¼in. (138cm.) high; 21¼in. (54cm.) deep

拍品專文

A related pedimented cabinet-of-drawers furnished the 17th Century state bedroom at Drayton House, Northamptonshire, and was described in the 1724 inventory as 'a Fine inlaid stone cabinet'. Its four tiers of drawers were simlilarly mounted with plaques of Albarese limestone. This has been considered as fossilised fern or wintery 'landscape stone' and the decoration reflects this. It was sold by Lionel Stopford-Sackville, Esq., in these Rooms, 5 July 1990, lot 115, and illustrated in M. Riccardi-Cubitt, The Art of the Cabinet, London, 1992, p. 192, fig. 51).

This cabinet's Roman acanthus-scrolls are an 18th century rendition of the type of arabesque ornament found on a 17th century Augsburg cabinet with pietre paesina plaques that is now displayed in the Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (see: A. M. Giusti, Pietre Dure, London, 1992, fig. 63). Its painted stand, with its hermed feet and fretted trellis frieze relates to table patterns in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book of 1793.