Secrétaire à abattant
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1850 - 1899
Materials
Marble, amaranth, kingwood, fruitwood, ormolu
Measurements
129.5 x 96.5 x 34.8 cm
Place of origin
France
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Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 997958
Summary
An amaranth, kingwood and fruitwood ormolu-mounted secrétaire à abattant, French, last half of the 19th century, in Louis XV/XVI style, with later alterations and embellishments. Topped by a slab of white marble above friezes mounted with floral guilloche, the front frieze a drawer, the canted corners topped by mounts of quivers and medallions. The fall and pair of cupboard doors below each of two wide and one slender central panel, the four outer panels of block parquetry, all six with a leaf-cast ormolu border. The outer panels mounted with a different trophy plaque: one representing Justice, one of martial attributes, one of a book, the last of a bird. The fall enclosing shelves and two banks of three small drawers. The sides with floral lozenge mounts; the apron with a mount cast as a lion mask and urn within sprays of foliage. The feet with paw-cast mounts.
Provenance
Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950.