A NEAPOLITAN GILT COPPER-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD, WALNUT AND EBONISED CABINET-ON-STAND inset overall with reverse glass painted capriccios, the moulded rectangular top above eight long drawers around a central tabernacle surmounted by a balustrade with secret drawer opening to reveal three further long drawers simulated as six drawers, above a further inverted breakfront secret drawer, on a George III stand with two frieze drawers moulded overall with beaded panels, on square chamfered legs, one glass panel replaced with a watercolour, with printed labels to the reverse MAPLES DEPOSITORY MRS C G GREENHILL, and with further inscription, the cabinet 17th Century and adapted, the glass panels and beading added in the 19th Century | Christie's

拍品 343

343

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A NEAPOLITAN GILT COPPER-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD, WALNUT AND EBONISED CABINET-ON-STAND inset overall with reverse glass painted capriccios, the moulded rectangular top above eight long drawers around a central tabernacle surmounted by a balustrade with secret drawer opening to reveal three further long drawers simulated as six drawers, above a further inverted breakfront secret drawer, on a George III stand with two frieze drawers moulded overall with beaded panels, on square chamfered legs, one glass panel replaced with a watercolour, with printed labels to the reverse MAPLES DEPOSITORY MRS C G GREENHILL, and with further inscription, the cabinet 17th Century and adapted, the glass panels and beading added in the 19th Century

细节

A NEAPOLITAN GILT COPPER-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD, WALNUT AND EBONISED CABINET-ON-STAND inset overall with reverse glass painted capriccios, the moulded rectangular top above eight long drawers around a central tabernacle surmounted by a balustrade with secret drawer opening to reveal three further long drawers simulated as six drawers, above a further inverted breakfront secret drawer, on a George III stand with two frieze drawers moulded overall with beaded panels, on square chamfered legs, one glass panel replaced with a watercolour, with printed labels to the reverse MAPLES DEPOSITORY MRS C G GREENHILL, and with further inscription, the cabinet 17th Century and adapted, the glass panels and beading added in the 19th Century
50in. (127cm.) wide; 59¼in. (150.5cm.) high; 15¾in. (40cm.) deep

来源

The Rev. Sewell Sitwell, Thanet, Kent
Acquired by the present owner's grandfather in the late 1890s