EARLY 19TH CENTURY

细节

A REGENCY GILT-COMPOSITION BLACK, RED AND GILT-JAPANNED DISPLAY CABINET-ON-STAND
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular breakfront moulded cornice above a central glazed door enclosing four glass shelves, flanked by two panelled doors decorated with chinoiserie panels each enclosing five adjustable red-painted shelves, the sides decorated with dragons, on a stand with square legs headed by acanthus and with foliage wrapped feet, the central door enclosing a modern security door now locked, the backboard of the base probably later
85 in. (216 cm.) high; 62 in. (158 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

来源

Bought from A. Cook, 22 Sept 1954 for £495.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

拍品专文

The magnificent china-cabinet, japanned in imitation of lacquer and intended for vase and porcelain display both inside and on top, as well as underneath its stand, reflects the Chinese fashion focused around 1800 at George, Prince of Wales's Carlton House mansion, London and his Marine Pavilion at Brighton. It relates in particular to the artistic work of his sister Princess Elizabeth, who decorated an apartment at Frogmore, Windsor in the 1790s with wall-panels, and furniture, including a folding fire-screen and low china-cabinets, in 'imitation of rich japan' (W. H. Pyne, Royal Residences 1817-1820; and D. Watkin, The Royal Interiors of Regency England, London, 1984, p. 97). The cabinet's doors, like the latter screen, are decorated in the manner of mid-eighteenth century Chinese lacquer twelve-fold screens such as that listed in 1818 at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire as 'of the rare and fine Japan enamelled in gold and coloured figures and landscapes etc.' (D. S. Howard, A Tale of Three Cities: Three Centuries of Sino-British Trade in the Decorative Arts, 1997, no. 227). The elegant form of the cabinet, with its geometric trellised grill and its stand's palm-wrapped and herm-tapered legs, relates to the French antique fashion promoted by Thomas Sheraton's, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793-4. A pair of related cabinets, made with lacquered panels from a screen, is at Scone Palace, Scotland (J. Jauncey, Scone Palace, guidebook, 2003, p. 32).