Lot 308

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A WILLIAM IV MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED PAPIER-MACHE SIDE CABINET

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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A WILLIAM IV MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED PAPIER-MACHE SIDE CABINET

CIRCA 1835, POSSIBLY BY FREDERICK CRACE OR JENNENS & BETTRIDGE

Details

A WILLIAM IV MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED PAPIER-MACHE SIDE CABINET
CIRCA 1835, POSSIBLY BY FREDERICK CRACE OR JENNENS & BETTRIDGE
Decorated overall with chinoiserie scenes of pavilions in watery landscape with attendants disporting on bridges and boats surrounded by flowers and birds of paradise, the plinth decorated with dragons, the three cupboards each enclosing two shelves, the reverse with a second-half 19th century retailer's label 'M. BUTLER LTD. ... 26, 126, 127, & 127 UPPER ABBEY STREET, DUBLIN', the locks stamped 'WR' below a crown
54 in. (137 cm.) high; 78 in. (198 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Probably Olive, Lady Ardilaun, wife of Sir Arthur Guinness, 1st Lord Ardilaun, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, by whom left to the grandmother of the present owner

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Lot Essay

A related Regency cabinet, with landscape vignettes and dragon-painted plinth, has been attributed to the artist-designer Frederick Crace (1779-1859) who was employed on the Chinese decoration of George, Prince Regent's Marine Pavilion, Brighton (M. Aldrich, The Craces: Royal Decorators 1768-1899, London, 1990, p. 23, fig 1:12).

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