AN ANGLO-DUTCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONISED, POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND GILTWOOD CABINET ON STAND
AN ANGLO-DUTCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONISED, POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND GILTWOOD CABINET ON STAND

CIRCA 1680-90, THE GEORGE I STAND RE-GILT

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AN ANGLO-DUTCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONISED, POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND GILTWOOD CABINET ON STAND
CIRCA 1680-90, THE GEORGE I STAND RE-GILT
Decorated overall with floral sprays issuing from Delftware vases, the two doors with engraved hinges and clasps enclosing a fitted interior with ten variously sized drawers surrounding a door, enclosing three further drawers, decorated conformingly with roses, peonies, violets, lilies and other flowers, the drawers with a nashiji style decoration to the interior, the stand with a shaped moulded and gadrooned frieze, on cabriole legs
The cabinet: 88 cm. high x 98 cm. wide x 47 cm. deep
The stand: 83 cm. high x 105 cm. wide x 53 cm. deep

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Judith Herngreen
Judith Herngreen

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This cabinet belongs to a small group of furniture, mostly cabinets, whose decoration points to a single workshop, although it is yet unclear whether it was in Holland or England. Certainly the style of painting is parallelled in the Netherlandish school of flower painting of the late 17th Century, which similarly influenced the style of Delftware and marquetry at this time. A triad with closely related decoration was supplied to Hopetown House, near Edinburgh, and is attributed to Huguenot émigré John Gilbaud, who was paid for two overmantel mirrors at Hopetown House in 1703.

A cabinet with closely related decoration to the exterior on silvered stand also attributed to John Guilbaud and reputedly from the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch was sold at Christie's New York, 26 October 1985, lot 159 and again Christie's, New York, 13 April 2000, lot 212.

For a comparable painted suite of elaborate design from Hopetown House, West Lothian, see also H. Hayward, World Furniture, London, 1965, pl. 295; For comparable cabinets see M. Riccardi-Cubitt, Le Cabinet, Paris, 1993, p. 69; H. Huth, Lacquer of the West, Chicago 1971, pl. 266.