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A DUTCH WALNUT, FIGURED-WALNUT, ROSEWOOD, SATINWOOD, EBONY, EBONISED AND TORTOISESHELL ORGAN-CABINET

BY PHILIP POTT (B. 1732), CIRCA 1779

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A DUTCH WALNUT, FIGURED-WALNUT, ROSEWOOD, SATINWOOD, EBONY, EBONISED AND TORTOISESHELL ORGAN-CABINET
BY PHILIP POTT (b. 1732), CIRCA 1779
The moulded arched cornice centred by a foliate clasp decorated with a garland above a pair of panelled doors enclosing a fitted interior with a central mirror panelled door surmounted by a broken arched pediment with a portrait medallion, flanked by pilasters with Corinthian capitals, enclosing four small drawers and two compartments, above a central drawer with a secret compartment to the reverse for music-sheets, flanked to either side by four further drawers, the waived toprail of the interior with a carved giltwood medallion with two interlaced P's for Philip Pott above 1779, the detachable hinged slope enclosing the ebony and ivory keyboard, the detachable pierced soundfret enclosing an interior with four sections of graduating oak and pewter pipes, flanked to either side by three handstops with ivory stop-plates inscribed FLUIT4V; HPYP8V; OCTAF2V; HPYP8V; FLUIT4V and PRESTANT8V, above a bombé base with a detachable front simulating three drawers with old paper label to the reverse inscribed Orgel no.12 enclosing the bellows
250 cm. high x 130 cm. wide x 82 cm. deep

Provenance

The private collection of Mr. Léon Gerard Joseph Verschueren (1903-1986), former director of the Dutch organbuilder's firm Firma L. Verschueren c.v. Orgelbouwersbedrijf, Heythuysen.
Acquired by him in Dordrecht in 1957, thence by descent.

Literature

A.J. Gierveld, Het Nederlandse huisorgel in de 17de en 18de eeuw, Utrecht, 1977, pp. 262-263, cat.nr. 268a, plate 50.
See also: A.J. Gierveld, Die Niederländische Hausorgel in früheren Jahrhunderten, Culemborg, 1981.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Philip Pott, born 1732 in Groszbülten near Hannover became master organ and harpsichord maker in the Egelantierstraat tusschen de laatste Dwarsstraat en Baangragt Amsterdam, circa 1777.
Between 1776 and 1780 some advertisements are known in which he offers his organ-cabinets. In 1779 and 1780 a 'very pretty' Comptoir bureau-orgel (organ-cabinet) 'made of fine walnut, with four sections and inlaid with tortoiseshell according to the Roman Order' is mentioned, this Comptoir bureau-organ can be identified as the organ-cabinet by Pott in this sale.

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