Details
Mounted overall with pierced and foliate-engraved handles, the doors and sides decorated with Chinoiserie motifs including pagodas, fowl, foliage and landscapes, enclosing an arrangement of eleven similarly-decorated drawers, on a silvered stand with pierced foliate apron centred by a putto flanked by dogs, on cabriole legs headed by female terms and terminating in scrolling foliate feet, joined by a shaped stretcher, refreshments to the decoration, the interior handles replaced
6412 in. (164 cm.) high; 43 in. (109 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
By repute The Earls of Craven.
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Lot Essay

This wonderful English cabinet and its silvered stand relates to a cabinet on a giltwood stand at Chastleton House, Oxfordshire (NT 1429997). Interestingly, the flowered handle back-plates on the Chastleton cabinet also feature on the present cabinet (A. Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714, Woodbridge, 2002, p. 156, plate 5:16).

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