LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE MARQUETRY PROBABLY CIRCA 1840

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AN OYSTER-VENEERED WALNUT AND MARQUETRY CABINET-ON-STAND
LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE MARQUETRY PROBABLY CIRCA 1840
The rectangular moulded cornice above a cushion drawer, above a pair of doors with flower-inlaid roundels and bird marquetry medallions enclosing an interior of drawers around a door, on a stand with a long frieze drawer, on spirally-turned legs joined by a shaped stretcher centred by an oval depicting a bird, on bun feet, the ringpull handles replaced, restorations and replacements, the legs, stretcher and feet later
68 in. (172.5 cm.) high; 51 in. (129.5 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 June 1987 lot 157.

Literature

M. Riccardi-Cubitt, The Art of the Cabinet, London, 1992, fig. 54.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The cabinet, mosaiced in medallions and tablets of birds and flowers, relects the Louis Quatorze 'Roman' fashion as well as the taste popularised in the late 17th century by Italian marble inlayers and by specialist marquetry inlayers in the Netherlands such as Jan van Mekeren (d. 1733). Such 'flowered' furniture also appears to have been a speciality of the London-based craftsman Gerrit Jensen (d. 1715) and of the Pistor family who supplied one such flowered pier-set to James Grahme in 1684 (A. Bowett, English Furniture: 1669-1714, Woodbridge 2002, p. 116)
A related cabinet on similar stand, included in the 13 November 2004 sale of Galerie Vogler,Basel was advertised in Weltkunst, November, 2004.

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