Sideboard
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Tulipwood, satinwood, maple, mahogany, beech, lacquer panels, brass handles, oak carcass
Measurements
81 x 78.5 cm
Place of origin
Netherlands
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Wallington, Northumberland
NT 582664
Summary
A chequer-banded tulipwood, maple, mahogany, beech and satinwood side cabinet, Dutch, circa 1770. Crossbanded, inlaid and with canted angles, enclosed by a pair of cupboard doors, each inset with a panel of re-used Japanese lacquer below a large tied ribbon and below a frieze drawer centred with a similar lacquer panel between brass handles, standing on square tapered feet.
Full description
As the taste for oriental decoration grew in France and Holland in the middle years of the 18th century, the demand for lacquer was so great that dealers in luxury goods dismantled Japanese cabinets and Chinese Coromandel screens imported in earlier years, in order to re-use the lacquer panels on new furniture.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Marks and inscriptions
Inside drawer on left side: Brown label - writing written in black ink reads - N TRUST