Cabinet stand
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1690 - 1700
Materials
Deal, gesso, gilding
Measurements
87.5 x 106.0 x 55.0 cm
Place of origin
England
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Saltram, Devon
NT 871278.2
Summary
A carved gilt gesso and giltwood stand, English, circa 1690 - 1700, supporting a contemporary English japanned cabinet [NT 871278.2]. 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. -- Very similar to a silvered stand of six legs in the Victoria & Albert Museum (W.20:1 to 16-1959).
Provenance
At Saltram by 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877 - 1951), 4th Earl of Morley and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.