Cabinet on stand
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1700
Materials
Walnut, holly, ash, amaranth(?), oak
Measurements
173 x 174 x 63.5 cm
Place of origin
Netherlands
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Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1254596
Summary
A marquetry inlaid walnut and tulipwood cross banded cabinet on stand, Dutch, circa 1700. The upper section with moulded cornice and a pair of paneled cupboard doors enclosing a fitted interior of shelves and shallow drawers. The inside of the doors inlaid in a geometric pattern of burr ash and amaranth(?). The stand with a frieze drawer and raised on six 'S' scroll legs tied by shaped stretchers, raised on turned bun feet. The whole profusely inlaid with seaweed marquetry of floral scrolls and arabesques.
Full description
A very similar cabinet was sold Christie's, London on 9 November 2006, Lot 382, now in the Fabergé Museum Collection, St. Petersburg. The inside door inlay is near identical and the seaweed marquetry almost certainly by the same hand. The Kingston Lacy cabinet is signed in pencil to the inside by Jan Roohals and I Hoogeboom. Conservation work was carried out on the cabinet circa 1990 and the signatures discovered. These Dutch names were probably those of journeymen employed in the workshop of one of the great Dutch cabinet makers. Several names have been suggested including Jan van Mekeren (Netherlands 1658-1733) - research is on-going. A related cabinet on stand attributed to Gerrit Jensen which shares the same form of scrolling legs and intricate seaweed marquetry is in the collection of the Dukes of Devonshire at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, illustrated Bowett 'English Furniture 1660-1714', ACC 2002, p.200, pls. 7:9 and 7:10. The scheme of the marquetry on the Chatsworth cabinet is similarly arranged in dense panels of foliate scrolls and strapwork. A further very similar cabinet with provenance from Cora, Countess of Stafford, is illustrated in Peter Brown ed., 'The Noel Terry Collection of Furniture and Clocks at Fairfax House', York, 1987, p. 40, no. 40. A walnut side table with legs and a stretcher of very similar form to the present cabinet is recorded in the Untermyer Collection and is illustrated in 'English Furniture with some furniture of other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection', London, 1958, pl.190 and also relates to a side table in the same collection pl.188-9. James Weedon (July 2018)
Provenance
Bequest of the estates of Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy made to the National Trust by Henry John Ralph Bankes (1902-1981). NT ownership commenced from 19 August 1982.
References
Baarsen, R. 'Furniture in Holland's Golden Age' 2007 Rijksmuseum van Duin, Paul and Breebaart, Iskander 'The conservation of a late 17th century floral marquetry cabinet attributed to Jan van Mekeren' Rijksmuseum