Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A WILLIAM AND MARY BLACK AND POLYCHROME JAPANNED CABINET ON STAND

LATE 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

with engraved brass mounts, the front and sides painted with Delft style vases of flowers and floral sprays, with a pair of doors enclosing an arrangement of ten drawers around a central cupboard, enclosing three further drawers, painted with scrolling leaves and flowers, the stand with conforming decoration, on square section legs united by a shaped 'X' stretcher

168cm high, 104.5cm wide, 53cm deep

Catalogue Note

This rare cabinet painted with still lives of flowers in the Netherlandish manner is part of a small group of similar examples, all painted with colourful flowers in vases on a black japanned ground. It is unclear whether the workshop was based in England or Holland.

For similar cabinets see Adam Bowett, English Furniture 1660-1714, from Charles II to Queen Anne, p.163 pl.5:32, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, inv. 78. Da. 117, the V&A Museum, accession no. W.50:1-1948, a cabinet on stand formerly in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, sold at Christie's New York, 13th April 2000, lot 212 and illustrated in G. Beard and J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, p.38 and finally a cabinet formerly in the collection of Christian, Lady Hesketh, sold at Sotheby's, 7th March 2007, lot 25.