拍品 151
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
AN ANGLO-INDIAN VIZIGAPATAM SILVERED METAL-MOUNTED IVORY MINIATURE BUREAU, engraved overal with scrolling foliage and flowers, the broken pediment with central pedestal above short drawers flanked at either side by a door enclosing four pigeon holes and three further short drawers, above a fall-front enclosing nine further drawers and three pigeon holes, above a long drawer and on bracket feet, lacking one knob and one escutcheon, late 18th Century

细节
AN ANGLO-INDIAN VIZIGAPATAM SILVERED METAL-MOUNTED IVORY MINIATURE BUREAU, engraved overal with scrolling foliage and flowers, the broken pediment with central pedestal above short drawers flanked at either side by a door enclosing four pigeon holes and three further short drawers, above a fall-front enclosing nine further drawers and three pigeon holes, above a long drawer and on bracket feet, lacking one knob and one escutcheon, late 18th Century
23¼in. (59cm.) wide; 35½in. (90.5cm.) high; 11in. (28cm.) deep

拍品专文

Serving as dressing, writing or jewel case and designed with plinth-centred pediment in the George III 'Palladian' manner, this exotic ivory-veneered cabinet is embellished with Indian flowered ribbon-borders of engraved and lac-filled foliage.
A related pattern of cabinet, with landscape vignettes and retaining its central vase or sacred-urn, from Pitchford Hall, Shropshire was sold Christie's house sale, 29 September 1992, lot 49.
A related Vizagapatam (Andhra state) ivory-inlaid rosewood cabinet at the Victoria & albert Museum retains its original stand (see: 'Art and the East India Trade', Apollo, Dec. 1970, p.485, fig.4)