Lot 106
106
A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT, FRUITWOOD AND EBONY MARQUETRY CHEST
PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION (LOTS 104-117)
A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT, FRUITWOOD AND EBONY MARQUETRY CHEST

CIRCA 1690

Details
A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT, FRUITWOOD AND EBONY MARQUETRY CHEST
CIRCA 1690
Decorated overall with scrolling foliate marquetry, with two short and three long drawers, later brasses, feet replaced
37 ½ in. (95 cm.) high, 40 in. (101.5 cm.) wide, 22 ¾ in. (58 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1987, lot 24.
Literature
A. Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714, Woodbridge, England, 2002, p. 197, fig. 7:3.

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Lot Essay

A chest of virtually the same design displaying contra partie inlay is illustrated in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, n.d. (1911), vol. I, New York, p. 115, fig. 135 (with C. J. Charles, Esq.).

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