The shaped arched cresting above a pair of arched paneled doors enclosing an interior fitted with pigeonholes, shelves and small drawers over a pair of candle-slides, the slant lid enclosing a fitted interior with well over two small drawers, two pairs of drawers and a long drawer above a shaped apron and bracket feet, decorated throughout with foliate scrolls and extensive landscapes, the sides mounted with lifting handles; formerly but probably not originally with finials
89 in. (226 cm.) high, 39¹⁄₂ in. (100 cm.) wide, 25¹⁄₄ in. (64 cm.)

The Collection of Sir William Plender, later Baron Plender of Sundridge, G.B.E. (1861-), Bourne Park, Ovenden, Kent.
The Property of a New York Estate; Christie’s, New York, 17 October 1997, lot 445.
Acquired from the above sale.

R.W. Symonds, Old English Walnut and Lacquer Furniture, London, 1923, pp. 166-167, pl. XXXIX.

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LORD PLENDER
Lord Plender of Sunridge was one of several distinguished collectors of English furniture advised by the furniture historian R. W. Symonds (d. 1958) and his collection formed the basis of several articles by Symonds, published in Apollo and the German journal Pantheon in 1930-31 (C. Streeter & M. Barker, 'A Bibliography of Publications by Robert Wemyss Symonds', Furniture History, 1975, pp. 88-107). Symonds included several pieces from Lord Plender's collection in his seminal book on 18th century English furniture Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, London, 1940, and also in his earlier publication, Old English Walnut and Lacquer Furniture, 1923.