Cabinet on stand
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1880 (with 17th century parts)
Materials
Pine carcass, the outside drawers in mulberry, ebonised, veneered with ebony, mulberry, walnut, burr-walnut, engraved brass, carved, gilt and painted softwood, gilt brass mounts.
Measurements
178.5 x 120 x 48 cm
Place of origin
Europe
Order this imageCollection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey (Accredited Museum)
On show at
South Corridor, Polesden Lacey House, Polesden Lacey, Surrey, London and South East, National Trust
NT 1245885
Summary
A cabinet on stand, constructed in the nineteenth century combining seventeenth century parts of various origins, notably a Flemish cabinet but incorporating French giltwood cariatids and mounted with engraved brass-cut panels on a red velvet ground, possibly originally from a casket. The cabinet is surmounted by a gilt bronze balustrade gallery above a frieze of two drawers. It opens with a pair of central doors to an interior veneered with burr-walnut and mulberry fitted with a central niche flanked by six with small drawers to each side and a pair of long drawers, the front of the cabinet opens with twelve further drawers, it is raised on a stand with two frieze drawers on six giltwood caryatid legs carved with female and male busts terminated in scrolling acanthus, joined by a flat stretcher on bun feet.
Provenance
Previous history and date of acquisition not recorded; recorded in the Corridor when bequeathed by Margaret McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald Greville (1863-1942) with Polesden Lacey, to the National Trust, in memory of her father, William McEwan (1827-1913).