A Lacquer Cabinet on Stand
Edo period (mid-late 17th century)
The cabinet decorated in gold hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, kirigane, and nashiji, and inlaid in mother-of-pearl on a black lacquered ground, the front doors with a cartouche enclosing a cherry tree by a stream and the autumn grasses on the opposite riverside, against a nashiji ground and surrounded by a mother-of-pearl inlaid geometric pattern border, the top with thatched houses with a wall and camellia, kikyo [Chinese bellflower] and autumn grasses, one side with similar houses with chrysanthemums and the other with another house with a fence and willow and camellia, the interior of the doors in nashiji, the two drawers inside with similar buildings, flowers and grasses, each drawer has further smaller drawers and compartments inside, gilt fittings; the carved European wood stand of later date in the “Oriental manner” and a cross-shaped support to the lower legs
Cabinet 35.5cm. high, stand 80.5cm. high

Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Dominique-Vivant Denon (1747-1825)
Acquired in a Paris sale in 1826, no. 1202, probably by Heath, a godson of Denon
Then acquired for a Scottish country house collection

Published
Pierre Rosenberg ed., Dominique-Vivant Denon: L’oeil de Napoléon, exhibition catalogue, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 1999), p. 424-425, no. 490.

Exhibited
Dominique-Vivant Denon: L’œil de Napoléon [The Eye of Napoleon], Musée du Louvre, Paris, 20 October 1999 –17 January 2000

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