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AN 'ANTIQUARIAN' EBONISED, PADOUK, ROSEWOOD AND MOTHER OF PEARL INLAID CABINET ON STAND

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, CONSTRUCTED USING ELEMENTS OF A GEORGE II GAMES TABLE

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AN 'ANTIQUARIAN' EBONISED, PADOUK, ROSEWOOD AND MOTHER OF PEARL INLAID CABINET ON STAND
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, CONSTRUCTED USING ELEMENTS OF A GEORGE II GAMES TABLE
With a pierced scrolled pediment above a panelled front with foliate cartouches and similarly inlaid oval depressions within a studded border, flanked by spiral turned pilasters and with a door to each end, the serpentine frieze with applied roundels on spiral supports and a raised plinth base, with two labels '...LLAND RE EARL OF CLANWILLIAM 23-5-1933' and inscribed by hand '40', and a further handwritten paper label '...tess of Pembroke Wilton House'.
68½in. (174cm.) high, 58in. (148cm.) wide, 19½in. (49cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A George II period padouk and mother-of-pearl inlaid games table, decorated with identical foliate cartouches, and attributed to John Channon was sold Christie's London, 9 July, 1992, lot 47.

The 'Elizabethan' ebonised cabinet was possibly conceived around the time of the marriage between Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, and Lady Beatrix Lambton in 1877. The spiral turned columns would complement pillars in The Front Hall at Wilton House, and the cabinet would have served to display Chinese porcelain.

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