Lot 367
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A CHARLES I STUMPWORK AND SILK-EMBROIDERED TABLE CABINET

Details
A CHARLES I STUMPWORK AND SILK-EMBROIDERED TABLE CABINET
BY M. INGLIS, DATED 1630

The rectangular hinged top with well over canted sides, also hinged to reveal a dressing mirror and fitted interior for writing, above a pair of cabinet doors each with a nobleman and his wife beneath a canopy, opening to three short and one long drawer beneath a false drawer revealing secret drawers and inscribed in ink 'Worked by M. Inglis 1630', decorated allover with scrolling blossoms, animals and figures within metallic thread borders 13in. (33cm.) high, 10in. (25cm.) wide

Lot Essay

A similar cabinet from the collection of Mrs. John E. Rovensky was sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15-19 January 1957, lot 508. Another was sold by Percival D. Griffiths, Esq., Christie's London, 10 May 1939, lot 70 and is illustrated in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev.edn., 1954, vol.I, p.108, fig. 22.