Cabinet stand
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900
Materials
Burr walnut, walnut, brass handles
Measurements
85 x 93 x 37.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1331924.2
Summary
The stand for a sycamore and fruitwood marquetry cabinet on later stand, South German, Augsburg, circa 1570. The profusely inlaid interior depicting buildings and geometric patterns, enclosed by a pair of parquetry doors, the inside of the doors with architectural landscapes centred with a stag, having a pair of central pillared doors with pedimented and arched detail, surrounded by thirteen drawers and four dummy drawers to the upper row, engraved steel lock and steel hinges, the stand with frieze drawer and spiral-twist legs joined by a wavy X-stretcher.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.