The Property of
The late LADY MARGARET ILLINGWORTH
Sold By Order of the Execeutors
A WILLIAM AND MARY BRASS-MOUNTED BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CABINET-ON-STAND, the doors decorated with vases of flowers and courtly chinoiserie figures, with temples beyond in an extensive watery landscape, enclosing a similarly-decorated interior with ten variously- sized drawers within simulated nashiji borders on a husk-trailed moulded giltwood stand carved with C-scrolls, the arcaded base with twin seraphins above a pierced scallop-shell and scrolling foliate apron on six foliate-carved tapering Ionic fluted pilaster legs with pierced foliate scroll bases joined by a double X-shaped stretcher with gadrooned platforms and scrolled acanthus, on pierced scroll feet, the stand heightened at a later date
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A WILLIAM AND MARY BRASS-MOUNTED BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CABINET-ON-STAND, the doors decorated with vases of flowers and courtly chinoiserie figures, with temples beyond in an extensive watery landscape, enclosing a similarly-decorated interior with ten variously- sized drawers within simulated nashiji borders on a husk-trailed moulded giltwood stand carved with C-scrolls, the arcaded base with twin seraphins above a pierced scallop-shell and scrolling foliate apron on six foliate-carved tapering Ionic fluted pilaster legs with pierced foliate scroll bases joined by a double X-shaped stretcher with gadrooned platforms and scrolled acanthus, on pierced scroll feet, the stand heightened at a later date
42¼in. (107.5cm.) wide; 69¼in. (176cm.) high; 22in. (56cm.) deep
42¼in. (107.5cm.) wide; 69¼in. (176cm.) high; 22in. (56cm.) deep