A PAIR OF ENGLISH PADOUK, CHINESE RED LACQUER AND JAPANNED CABINETS ON GILTWOOD STANDS

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09.02.2023 10:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 39 | A PAIR OF ENGLISH PADOUK, CHINESE RED LACQUER AND JAPANNED CABINETS ON GILTWOOD STANDS
A PAIR OF ENGLISH PADOUK, CHINESE RED LACQUER AND JAPANNED CABINETS ON GILTWOOD STANDS

DOOR PANELS KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722), THE CABINETS AND STANDS CONSTRUCTED CIRCA 1900, ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED BY MAPLE & CO., LONDON

Each with acanthus carved cavetto cornice above a pair of padouk-framed doors incorporating Chinese lacquer panels decorated with dragons, calligraphy and cloud swirls enclosing an arrangement of five similarly lacquer-mounted drawers below open shelves, the sides of the cabinets with similarly decorated japanned panels, the elaborate stands carved with displays of flowers and foliage centred by winged cherub's heads on cabriole legs with satyr masks and lion's paw feet

76 in. (193 cm.) high; 62 in. (155 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep





Provenance

Acquired by Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, by descent until sold,

Easton Neston, Northamptonshire; Sotheby’s house sale, 17-19 May 2005, lot 32.



Literature

Herbert Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, 1909, 3 vols., vol. I, p. 187, fig. 197.

Also recorded in three inventories of Easton Neston (according to the 2006 catalogue entry), I) 1919, p.1, item 3; II) 1925, p. 1, in the Drawing Room, as 'a pair of Chinese cabinets with five drawers and shelves enclosed by a pair of doors with red ground lacquer panels...removed from 7 Rutland Gate)', £700; III) 1927, p. 3, item 43 as 'illustrated in Cescinsky's Book', £700, in the Drawing Room.

Christian, Lady Hesketh, 'Easton Neston, Nicholas Hawksmoor's Baroque Creation in Northamptonshire', Architectural Digest, January 1991, p. 141.



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