The banded top centred by a marquetry panel depicing Diana with various attendants, a monkey and a elephant, the banding and frieze with inlaid ribbon-tied swags and trailing foliage, on square tapering legs with brass castors, the drawer with paper label inscribed 'Lady Margaret I. Kerr / from her mother / VICTORIA, LADY LOTHIAN / 1937', the underside with further paper label inscribed 'MARGARET ISOBEL KERR / FROM MONTEVIOT / 1938', restorations
26 in. (66 cm.) high; 16³⁄₄ in. (42.5 cm.) wide; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) deep

The Collections of the Marquesses of Lothian, Monteviot House, Scotland.
Victoria, Marchioness of Lothian (1844-1938) and by descent to her daughter,
Lady Margaret Isobel Kerr (1868-1964).
Acquired from Pelham Galleries, London, 1968.

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Giuseppe Maggiolini (1738-1814) is one of the most celebrated Italian cabinet-makers. Credited with producing fine marquetry in his distinctive neoclassical style, Maggiolini worked extensively for the aristocracy in Northern Italy, including Marchese Litta, who, along with the painter-architect Guiseppe Levati, first recognised his talents as an intarsiatore in the 1760s. His many projects included the furnishing of the Palazzo Ducale in Milan, the Villa Reale in Monza and the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua. He also worked extensively for the Austrian Governor General of Milan, Archduke Ferdinand, to whom he also supplied furniture destined for Stanislas Poniatowski and for Elizabeth of Russia.

He is known to have worked on Chinoiserie commodes with figures similar to the present lot (see G. Beretti, Giuseppe e Carlo Francesco Maggiolini, Milan 1994, plate IV, p. 54 (as part of a commode).