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Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1690 - 1700
Materials
The cabinet: japanned and gilt deal and oak carcass, brass mounts; the stand: deal, gesso, gilding
Place of origin
England
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Saltram, Devon
NT 871278
Summary
A japanned cabinet on a giltwood stand, both English, late 17th century. The cabinet with an interior fitted with ten drawers of various sizes, their insides coloured red but with undecorated deal sides and base. The drawers enclosed by a pair of doors fitted with chased brass hinges and a large lockplate. Decorated throughout with Chinoiserie figures, landscapes, flora and fauna. With its original steel key. The stand of six rectangular-section baluster legs topped by Ionic capitals and drapery swags. The friezes between the legs and to the sides carved with foliage and scrolls and pierced. The feet of opposing scrolls. The legs joined by two cross stretchers, undulating and carved with acanthus. Each stretcher topped by a small platform. -- The stand very similar to a silvered stand of six legs in the Victoria & Albert Museum (W.20:1 to 16-1959).
Provenance
At Saltram in 1951 and accepted in part payment of death duties by HM Treasury from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877 - 1951), 4th Earl of Morley and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.