A WILLIAM AND MARY BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CABINET ON GILTWOOD STAND

CIRCA 1695, POSSIBLY NORTH EUROPEAN, THE CARRYING HANDLES GEORGE III AND CIRCA 1770

Details

A WILLIAM AND MARY BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CABINET ON GILTWOOD STAND
Circa 1695, possibly North European, the carrying handles George III and circa 1770
The cabinet decorated overall with Chinoiserie scenes with landscapes with towns, people and animals, the front doors with gilt hinges and escutchon plate enclosing a fitted interior with ten variously-sized drawers decorated with individual scenes and the reverse of the doors with cranes and antelopes, the stand with pierced apron with a central nymph with dolphins among foliate scrolls and with conforming sides, the entwined dolphin feet with cherubs to the top, the back of the cabinet incised four times 'DE', the stand regilt
65½ in. (166 cm.) high, 49 in. (125 cm.) wide, 24½ in. (62 cm.) deep

Provenance

With Blairman, London.

Lot Essay

The unusual handles on this cabinet, with their laurel-wreath back-plate, are closely related to a design that forms part of a manufacturer's catalogue of furniture fitting designs of the 1770s which are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (N. Goodison, 'The Victoria and Albert Museum's Collection of Metal-Work Pattern Books', The Journal of the Furniture History Society, Leeds, 1975, vol. XI, fig. 22). A number of distinguished pieces of furniture with the same pattern of handle are recorded, often associated with London cabinet-makers such as John Cobb.

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