Lot 152
152
A WILLIAM AND MARY BRASS-MOUNTED BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CABINET-ON-SILVERED-STAND
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A WILLIAM AND MARY BRASS-MOUNTED BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CABINET-ON-SILVERED-STAND

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A WILLIAM AND MARY BRASS-MOUNTED BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CABINET-ON-SILVERED-STAND
Decorated overall with pavilions and trees, the rectangular cabinet with a pair of doors enclosing nine variously-sized drawers around a recess decorated with a bird, on a stand with pierced scrolling foliage centred by a cartouche issuing foliage and flanked by putti, the stand resilvered and part late 17th Century, the cabinet with signs of a change of heart during construction, lacking four hinges
24½ in. (151 cm.) high; 46¾ in. (119 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep
Provenance
The Hon. Hanning Philipps, M.B.E., J.P., sold in these Rooms, 23 September 1982, lot 146.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

The English late 17th century japanned cabinet and its silvered stand relates to a cabinet with similarly naïve decoration at Chastleton House, Oxfordshire. Interestingly, the flowered handle back-plates on the Chastleton cabinet also feature on the present cabinet (A. Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714, Woodbridge, 2002, p. 156, plate 5:16).

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