A GEORGE II GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED AND PARCEL-GILT BUREAU CABINET

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$ 300 000
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ID 819783
Лот 22 | A GEORGE II GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED AND PARCEL-GILT BUREAU CABINET
A GEORGE II GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED AND PARCEL-GILT BUREAU CABINET

ATTRIBUTED TO GILES GRENDEY, CIRCA 1740

The scrolled broken-arch cornice issuing foliate scrolls and flanking a pierced foliate cartouche above a dentil-cornice and a pair of cabinet doors each with later mirror plates within diapered and gilt-japanned borders depicting landscape and figural vignettes, the reverse of the doors decorated with large scale cartouches with floral sprays, figures and birds within gilt animal cartouche sprays, the later blue-stained interior fitted with shelves, compartments and folio slides over three drawers, the lower case with a slant front decorated with two cartouches depicting figures in front of pavilions within a dense diapered and figural cartouche ground, and opening to a fitted interior with a central mirrored prospect door flanked by pigeon holes and small drawers, and a later silk velvet lined writing surface, the whole densely decorated with figures, birds, and animals, the bombé case with three graduated oak lined drawers decorated with figural vignettes, processions and animals in exotic landscapes, the super cartouches on the sides with animals, the lower panels with figural vignettes above a gadrooned apron and foliate scrolled paw feet, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label, en suite with the chest of drawers

106.3 in. (270 cm.) high, 41.7 in. (106 cm.) wide





Provenance

Possibly commissioned by a member of the Pallavicini family and by descent.

The Durrazo-Pallavicini Negrotto-Cambiaso Collection, Castello Arenzano; Christie's, Rome (at the Palazzo Borromeo Arese, Cesano Maderno, Milano), 5-6 October 1979, lot 388.

Acquired from Mallett, London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1980.



Literature

Review of the Season, Christie's, 1980, p. 457.

L. Synge, Mallett's Great English Furniture, London, 1991, fig. 63.

F. Mcgill, A Curious Affair: The Fascination Between East and West, San Francisco, 2006, pp. 42-45.





Exhibited

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, A Curious Affair, the Fascination Between East and West, 17 June-3 September 2006.



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