Lot Essay
This linen-press with Apollo-lyre tablet and fluted enrichments, is embellished with flower-cornered panels such as feature on a cabinet executed in Amsterdam in the early 1790s by Jan Elder Glade (d.1825) (see R. Baarsden, De Amsterdamse meubell oterijen, Amsterdam 1992, fig13). The flowered inlay, with its birds and bracket-supported vases with arabesque nymph-caryatids reflects the antiquarian revival of the late seventeenth century style.