Table cabinet
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1775 - circa 1800 (the cabinet)
Materials
Black lacquer, brass, softwood, gilt
Measurements
46.5 x 46.5 x 24 cm
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959323.1
Summary
A small black-lacquer and gilt table cabinet, Chinese, late 18th century, on a japanned stand, English, late 18th/early 19th century. The cabinet with re-entrant corners, and two inset doors decorated with landscape scenes within a foliate and floral border. The interior fitted with stepped drawers and niches around a central cupboard behind a trellis 'fence' or gallery. The stand with low gallery to the top. Its legs and friezes japanned with foliate sprays, and with pierced gilt spandrels. The legs square-section and joined by a concave-sided shelf stretcher. Possibly acquired by Charles Winn (d. 1874) in the early 19th century.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust by private treaty sale from Lord St Oswald in 2010.