SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE II BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CABINET-ON-GILT-GESSO STAND
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The two doors, top and sides depicting landscapes and pavillions, enclosing a similarly-decorated interior fitted with a long drawer above two pairs of short drawers and another long drawer, on a giltwood and gilt-gesso base with gadrooned edge above a shell and reed-carved front and sides, with pounced ground, on imbricated dolphin cabriole legs, restorations to decoration
65¼ in. (166 cm.) high; 39 in. (99 cm.) wide; 22¾ in. (58 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Lords de Saumarez, Shrubland Park, Suffolk; Sotheby's house sale, 19 September 2006, lot 34.

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Lot Essay

This bold stand decorated with the classical marine imagery depicting a scallop shell and dolphin form feet relate it to a chair formerly in the collection of Sir George Donaldson and illustrated in Ralph Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p.136, fig.76. The dolphin form feet also appear on a Chairman's seat circa 1730, supplied for an East India Trading Company courtroom in Leadenhall Street, London and pictured in Country Life, vol. LXV, 1929, p.242, fig.11.

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