Cabinet on stand
Category
Furniture
Date
1680 - 1700
Materials
Bantanwork / Coromandel lacquer, gilt brass, giltwood
Measurements
172 x 99 x 52 cm
Place of origin
East Indies
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Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 453127
Summary
A Bantamwork or Coromandel lacquer and gilt brass mounted cabinet on an associated giltwood stand, the cabinet Dutch East Indies, circa 1680, the stand English, circa 1680-1700 The cabinet with a pair of cupboard doors enclosing a fitted interior of drawers, decorated throughout with figures depicted as musicians and hunters within a landscape and with buildings. The doors with pierced brass and chased hinge plates and conforming lock plates. The sides with floral decoration. The giltwood stand with a carved moulded edge and pierced scroll carved frieze with six pillar legs tied by double X stretchers and all profusely carved with scrolls and swags and leaf decoration.
Full description
The name Bantamwork derives from the Dutch colonial city of Batavia (now Jakarta) and Coromandel from the coast of south-east India where much lacquer was shipped to Britain and Europe by the Dutch East India Company. Such examples were export wares and therefore specifically made for the European market to satisfy a huge demand for exotic Eastern decorated works of art. The stands were then created in Britain and Europe and usually post date the cabinets themselves. See Bowett, Adam ‘English furniture 1660-1714’ ACC 2002 pg 150-8 for further discussion on lacquer ware. James Weedon (December 2017)
Provenance
Bequeathed by Clark, Roger.
References
Bowett 2002: Adam Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714, 2002, 150-8