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A NORTH EUROPEAN BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER CABINET ON A WILLIAM AND MARY GILTWOOD STAND

THE CABINET POSSIBLY GERMAN, LATE 17TH CENTURY, REGILT WITH TRACES OF EARLIER SILVERING

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A NORTH EUROPEAN BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER CABINET ON A WILLIAM AND MARY GILTWOOD STAND
THE CABINET POSSIBLY GERMAN, LATE 17TH CENTURY, REGILT WITH TRACES OF EARLIER SILVERING
The cabinet with a pair of doors enclosing variouly sized drawers decorated throughout with gilt chinoiseries in landscapes, the stand with a pierced foliate-carved frieze centered by a coat-of-arms flanked by putti on putti-carved foliate cabriole legs with scrolling toes, bearing paper label X. 909/Lacquer Cabinet/on 'white gold' stand., extensive restorations
63 in. (160 cm.) high, 46 in. (117 cm.) wide, 23 in. (58 cm.) deep

Provenance

with Frank Partridge & Son, New York.
Collection of Lord Ribblesdale, London; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 21-22 November 1958, lot 153 ($475).

Special notice

Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

Sale room notice

Please note the additional provenance to this lot:
The late Viscount Leverhulme, The Hill, Hampstead, sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 9 February 1926, lot 150 ($2,900).

Lot Essay

The fame of the Ribblesdale family endures, almost certainly because of John Singer Sargent's iconic portrait of the 4th Baron Ribblesdale (1854-1925), Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria and a keen hunstman, which is now in the National Gallery. This cabinet may have originally come from the family's ancestral country seat, Gisburne Park, but then was probably moved to their London home, 32 Green Street. Green Street, an enormous Neo-Georgian house, was was built between 1897 and 1899 and, after Baron Ribblesdale's death, was leased by Queen Mary as a residence for her daughter Princess Mary, the future Princess Royal and her husband, the 6th Earl of Harewood. It is now the Brazilian Embassy.

This cabinet-on-stand can be seen in a photograph of the Music Room at the Duke's Newport home, Rough Point, from the 1960s. Please see note to lot 384 for further information.

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