A WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY OYSTER-VENEERED CABINET

The Property of the late SIR FRANK FRASER DARLING Sold by Order of the Trustees (Lots 232-243)

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A WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY OYSTER-VENEERED CABINET
17TH CENTURY

The moulded cornice above an ovolo frieze drawer and a pair of panelled cupboard doors inlaid with panels of boxwood and stained ivory, with vases issuing flowers, and birds resting on branches, the sides inlaid with oval ebony-ground panels inlaid with parrots and birds in flight, the cupboard doors similarly inlaid to the reverse and enclosing an interior fitted with a panelled cupboard door surrounded by eleven variously-sized oyster-veneered and boxwood lined drawers, the base fitted with a frieze drawer, on later spirally-turned baluster supports and bun feet joined by waved platform stretchers
47in. (119cm) wide, 64¾in. (164.5cm) high

来源

The Late Sir Frank Fraser Darling, Shefford - Woodlands House, Newbury, Berkshire, thence by family descent.

拍品专文

A related cabinet, with marquetry medallions displaying birds perched on flower-vases with lillies and accompanied by large bird medallions to the sides, was sold at Christie's, King Street, 10 October 1968, lot 52 and again on the 19th November 1992 lot 84. Another related cabinet with doors, featuring the same arrangement of marquetry panels, is illustrated H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, Vol 1, London, fig 125.