Lot Essay
A related marquetry chest-of-drawers, with confronting eagles among scrolling foliage, is illustrated in P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture, The Age of Walnut, London, 1908, pl. IV.
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A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT, ELM AND SEAWEED-MARQUETRY CHEST
Banded to the front with foliage marquetry, the moulded rectangular top inlaid with a central seaweed marquetry oval and feather-banded, above two short and three long graduated drawers with conforming marquetry panels, the lower two drawers also with birds, the sides each with a conforming shaped panel, on later bracket feet, restorations, partially reconstructed in the late 19th early 20th Century, presumably when the top was largely reveneered around the seaweed marquetry panel
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 37 in. (94.5 cm.) wide; 23 in. (59 cm.) deep
Banded to the front with foliage marquetry, the moulded rectangular top inlaid with a central seaweed marquetry oval and feather-banded, above two short and three long graduated drawers with conforming marquetry panels, the lower two drawers also with birds, the sides each with a conforming shaped panel, on later bracket feet, restorations, partially reconstructed in the late 19th early 20th Century, presumably when the top was largely reveneered around the seaweed marquetry panel
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 37 in. (94.5 cm.) wide; 23 in. (59 cm.) deep