Cabinet
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Lacquered wood, gilt metal and giltwood
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 514521.1
Summary
One of a pair of black lacquer small cabinets decorated with chinoiseries in gilt, wide gilt vermillion borders, two doors enclosing numerous drawers with hammered gilt metal fittings. On a contemporary giltwood stand, friezes carved with foliage and petals, cabriole legs carved at the knees with foliage, claw and ball feet. The cabinet is Chinese, early 18th Century; the stand is English, 1725-1775.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.