Lot 159
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A REGENCY PENWORK KNEEHOLE SIDE CABINET
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A REGENCY PENWORK KNEEHOLE SIDE CABINET

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY PENWORK KNEEHOLE SIDE CABINET
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Decorated overall with figures in landscape settings with foliate borders, the later inverted breakfront top above a bolection-moulded frieze and an arched kneehole with a mirror flanked on each side by an arched panelled door enclosing a shelf, on bun feet
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 43½ in. (110.5 cm.) wide; 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

Patterns for such pen-work or 'painting on Wood and Fancy Work' in the manner of engraved Indian ivory furniture featured in R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1817. Related Chinese vignettes decorate a Regency cabinet and tea-caddy exhibited in the 'Penwork: The Triumph of Line' exhibition held at Hyde Park Antiques, New York in 1989 (catalogue nos. A-2 and C-40). Related polychrome penwork featured on a cabinet-on-stand illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, fig. 578, p. 308 and sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 27 November 2003, lot 55 (£33,460).

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