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An English gilt-metal and Sevres-style porcelain-mounted burlwood and walnut side cabinet
An English gilt-metal and Sevres-style porcelain-mounted burlwood and walnut side cabinet

RETAILED BY EDWARDS & ROBERTS, LONDON, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

細節
An English gilt-metal and Sevres-style porcelain-mounted burlwood and walnut side cabinet
Retailed by Edwards & Roberts, London, Last quarter 19th Century
The breakfront top above a conforming frieze set with three porcelain plaques depicting floral sprays, above a central cupboard door set with an oval plaque painted with putti opening to a single shelf, flanked on either side by a further cupboard door set with an arched, bevelled and glazed panel opening to a red velvet-lined interior, the reverse applied with a paper label for Edwards & Roberts, London
43 in. (109.3 cm.) high; 71¾ in. (182.3 cm.) wide; 16 5/8 in. (42.3 cm.) deep

拍品專文

The present cabinet bears the retailer's label of Edwards & Roberts, the celebrated firm of London marchand-merciers, being both dealers and manufacturers, who played such a significant role in the trade of antique furniture in England in the 19th Century. Established in 1845, by 1854 they gazetted themselves as 'Edwards and Roberts, 21 Wardour Street, Antique and Modern Cabinet-Makers and Importers of Ancient Furniture' and their business activities can be directly compared with those of Edward Holmes Baldock (d. 1845), also based in Wardour Street, who imported and dealt in luxurious French furniture and works of Art.