Cabinet
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1790
Materials
Kingwood, purpleheart, ormolu and brass
Measurements
110 x 66 x 32 cm
Place of origin
France
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Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1245902
Summary
A kingwood, purpleheart and ormolu-mounted cabinet, French, late 18th century. The top with a pierced brass gallery above a pair of doors between canted front corners. Inlaid with 'flutes' of alternating kingwood and purpleheart and mounted with ormolu triglyphs and bosses. The legs set at an angle, inlaid, and of tapering square-section, mounted with square ormolu caps.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded, but probably originally at 16 Charles Street, Mayfair, Mrs Greville's London home, and 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) in 1942. This item found on the probate inventory record for Charles Street chattels at Polesden Lacey, found in the Dining Room, page 9.