A GOANESE GILTMETAL-MOUNTED EBONY AND IVORY-INLAID HARDWOOD AND MARQUETRY CHEST-ON-CHEST, inlaid overall with star-shaped arabesques within concentric circles, the rectangular top above ten drawers simulated as twelve drawers, with carrying handles to the sides, above an ebonised moulded collar, two frieze drawers with pierced filligree banding and a further recessed drawer to the base, the winged caryatids, supporting foliate capitals and on moulded stepped shaped plinths previously mounted with filligree mounts to the top section, last quarter 17th Century, restorations, with three depository labels to the reverse FORTT, HATT & BILLINGS DEPOSITORIES BATH, one typed MRS INGLEFISID OCT 26 87, with further label PIMMS DEPOSITORY, GUILDFORD LADY TENNYSON JAN 5 1924

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A GOANESE GILTMETAL-MOUNTED EBONY AND IVORY-INLAID HARDWOOD AND MARQUETRY CHEST-ON-CHEST, inlaid overall with star-shaped arabesques within concentric circles, the rectangular top above ten drawers simulated as twelve drawers, with carrying handles to the sides, above an ebonised moulded collar, two frieze drawers with pierced filligree banding and a further recessed drawer to the base, the winged caryatids, supporting foliate capitals and on moulded stepped shaped plinths previously mounted with filligree mounts to the top section, last quarter 17th Century, restorations, with three depository labels to the reverse FORTT, HATT & BILLINGS DEPOSITORIES BATH, one typed MRS INGLEFISID OCT 26 87, with further label PIMMS DEPOSITORY, GUILDFORD LADY TENNYSON JAN 5 1924
42¼in. (107.5cm.) wide; 55¼in. (140cm.) high; 23¾in. (60.5cm.) deep

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Lady Tennyson

拍品专文

This cabinet, with its geometric chequered inlay and columnar feet of rich foliage with cherubim-heads in the antique manner, typfies the exotic furniture manufactured for Portuguese traders at Indian and Goanese ports in the 17th Century

Similar cabinet-on-stands with identical drawer arrangements and very similar inlay were sold in these Rooms, 18 June 1976, lot 195, 27 March 1986, lot 109, 8 December 1988, lot 141, 29 Novemver 1990, lot 265 and 6 June 1991, lot 298. Another similar, the property of the late Major Eustace Robb, Great Tew Park, Oxfordshire, was sold in Christie's House Sale 27 May 1987, lot 88. See S. Jervis, Furniture at Arundel Castle, The Connoisseur, March 1978, for another example.