Cabinet on stand
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1670
Materials
Kingwood, pine, oak, ebony, ivory, turtleshell, gilt brass, gilding, mirror glass, paint
Measurements
172.8 x 146.2 x 54 cm
Place of origin
Northern Europe
Order this imageCollection
Coughton Court, Warwickshire
NT 135363
Summary
A kingwood oyster-veneered cabinet on stand, Northern European, mid- to late 17th century. With some English, French and Dutch or Flemish features. Pine carcass, oak-lined drawers. Colloquially known as the 'Mass Cabinet'. With a moulded cornice above a pair of short drawers above two oyster-veneered doors enclosing an arrangement of ten drawers and a pair of oyster-veneered slides around a central small cupboard door, all with applied edge mouldings. The central cupboard door enclosing an architectural scene lined with mirrors in gilt arched surrounds, with a chequered floor, and a pair of paintings, one of a man and another of a woman, behind a low rail with gilt balusters. A small drawer above faced with turquoise-stained tortoiseshell sheets. Surrounded by fourteen short drawers faced with sheets of turtleshell and with ripple edge mouldings. A pair of oyster-veneered slides beneath the main cabinet. The stand with carved, pendant aprons to the front frieze and raised to the front on four spiral turned legs with bun feet, and to the rear on four broadening rectangular-section legs, all joined by a platform stretcher.
Provenance
Exhibited in 1948 at the Art Treasures of Warwickshire Exhibition (see Apollo, July 1949, Vol. 48). Purchased by National Trust in 2000 through private treaty sale.