Lot Essay
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.