Cabinet on stand
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1690
Materials
Kingwood, tortoiseshell and ebony veneer, brass mounts
Measurements
63 x 82.5 x 40 cm
Place of origin
England
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485416
Summary
A cabinet, English, circa 1690, veneered with kingwood, the interior with tortoiseshell and ebony, the stepped cornice above a long drawer with a rounded front, above a pair of doors opening to an interior with twelve drawers, mounted with intricate foliate openwork brass lockplate and hinges, raised on a later stand (NT 485415).
Provenance
By descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.