LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A CHINESE POLYCHROME BANTAMWORK CABINET-ON-STAND
Late 17th century
The rectangular cabinet decorated overall with dignatories in a landscape with pavilions and bridges, the sides with exotic birds and trees, enclosing eighteen variously-sized drawers decorated with landscapes and flowers, the reverse of the doors with vases of flowers, on an English giltwood stand with pierced shaped apron carved with putti, on cabriole legs with leaf-wrapped feet, the underside of the drawers with chinese characters, the stand with Maples depository label stencilled 'Lady Oppenheimer', the stand regilt
57½ in. (146 cm.) high; 38¼ in. (97 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

Provenance

Lady Oppenheimer
The Hon. Mrs. Nellie Ionides, Buxted Park, Sussex and by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Bantamwork or Coromandel lacquer is the term applied to decoration that is cut into a layer of gesso and then lacquered in colours. Much of the lacquer was transhipped from China through Coromandel in India, or the Dutch colony Batavia, the former name for Djakarta, Indonesia. The present cabinet is closely related to one with Malletts and illustrated in A. Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714: From Charles II to Queen Anne, Woodbridge, 2002, p. 150, plates 5:9. A closely related Bantamwork cabinet with associated stand was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London 3 July 2003, lot 129 (£26,400).

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