A FLEMISH TORTOISESHELL, EBONY AND ROSEWOOD CABINET with inverted breakfront broken pediment, centred by a scallop-shell niched(?) architrave(?) framing a 18th/19th Century boxwood figure of Charity surmounted by a late 17th Century boxwood figure of the Mother and Child, the upper section with two doors of architectural design carved with putto, caryatids and tamed lion-masks enclosing a fitted interior with five pigeon-holes, twelve cedar-lined drawers and two cupboard doors centred by a Gothic loggia with mirrored walls and a further statue of the Mother and Child, opening to reveal two secret drawers, the base with two similarly architectural doors enclosing a shelf above two long drawers, on panelled plinth base with a long drawer and bun feet, the cabinet mid-19th Century, with plaque inscribed XVIII CENTURY ITALIAN CABINET OF/EBONY & ROSEWOOD, BOXWOOD STATUETTES/OLD DAWYCK FURNITURE/BOUGHT AT NAESMYTH SALE 1924, alterations | Christie's

拍品 328

328

A FLEMISH TORTOISESHELL, EBONY AND ROSEWOOD CABINET with inverted breakfront broken pediment, centred by a scallop-shell niched(?) architrave(?) framing a 18th/19th Century boxwood figure of Charity surmounted by a late 17th Century boxwood figure of the Mother and Child, the upper section with two doors of architectural design carved with putto, caryatids and tamed lion-masks enclosing a fitted interior with five pigeon-holes, twelve cedar-lined drawers and two cupboard doors centred by a Gothic loggia with mirrored walls and a further statue of the Mother and Child, opening to reveal two secret drawers, the base with two similarly architectural doors enclosing a shelf above two long drawers, on panelled plinth base with a long drawer and bun feet, the cabinet mid-19th Century, with plaque inscribed XVIII CENTURY ITALIAN CABINET OF/EBONY & ROSEWOOD, BOXWOOD STATUETTES/OLD DAWYCK FURNITURE/BOUGHT AT NAESMYTH SALE 1924, alterations

细节

A FLEMISH TORTOISESHELL, EBONY AND ROSEWOOD CABINET with inverted breakfront broken pediment, centred by a scallop-shell niched(?) architrave(?) framing a 18th/19th Century boxwood figure of Charity surmounted by a late 17th Century boxwood figure of the Mother and Child, the upper section with two doors of architectural design carved with putto, caryatids and tamed lion-masks enclosing a fitted interior with five pigeon-holes, twelve cedar-lined drawers and two cupboard doors centred by a Gothic loggia with mirrored walls and a further statue of the Mother and Child, opening to reveal two secret drawers, the base with two similarly architectural doors enclosing a shelf above two long drawers, on panelled plinth base with a long drawer and bun feet, the cabinet mid-19th Century, with plaque inscribed XVIII CENTURY ITALIAN CABINET OF/EBONY & ROSEWOOD, BOXWOOD STATUETTES/OLD DAWYCK FURNITURE/BOUGHT AT NAESMYTH SALE 1924, alterations
46¾in. (119cm.) wide; 102¾in. (261cm.) high; 23½in. (60cm.) deep

来源

The Naesmyth family, Posso, Peebles, Scotland, house sale, 1924, lot 124.

拍品专文

The ancient Naesmyth estates at Posso, Peebles were broken up in 1924-1926. Dawyck is also near Peebles. A photograph of this cabinet, labelled lot 154, is included with this lot.