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Category
Furniture
Date
1675 - 1700 (the cabinet) - circa 1840 (the stand)
Materials
The cabinet: softwood, pearwood, paint, gilt, brass, varnish The stand: ebonized softwood
Place of origin
Holland or England
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959808
Summary
A cabinet on stand. The cabinet japanned, ebonized and brass mounted cabinet, English or Dutch, circa 1675 - 1700; the ebonized stand , circa 1840. The cabinet painted to both doors and to both sides with vases of European flowers within a garland of flowers and with scattered insects. The doors each with five pierced brass hinges fixed with pins, pierced corner mounts and pierced elaborate lockplate. The interior fitted with eleven small drawers with edge mouldings, each painted with a reserve within a densely decorated floral ground. The inside of the drawers is apparently painted in an orange/gold scheme, possibly imitating aventurine lacquer. The drawers set back from the front edge of the cabinet. The front edges of the side, top and bottom boards painted with a leaf and berry repeating pattern. The stand ebonized, and with a blind fretwork lozenge strapwork frieze, on four spiral-turned legs joined by conforming stretchers and terminating in bun feet.
Provenance
Purchased by Charles Winn (1795 – 1874) and thence by descent until purchased by the National Trust in 2002 with the aid of the Heritage Lottery Fund.
References
Westgarth 2009, M. Westgarth, 'A Biographical Register of Nineteenth Century Antique and Curiosity Dealers', Regional Furniture XXIII (2009), 1 - 205 Bowett 2002: Adam Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714, 2002, p. 163, Plate 5:32