Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Property from the Estate of Jimmy Younger
A William and Mary Oyster-Veneered Walnut, Olivewood, Ebony, Fruitwood, Ivory and Green-Stained Bone Marquetry Cabinet on Stand, Circa 1690
Lot closes
October 16, 04:01 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Starting Bid
4,200 USD
Lot Details
Description
One interior drawer with a 19th-century handwritten label This Cabinet belonged to Mrs Kate Winton who gave it to her niece Mrs [?]of West Tarring
With cushion-moulded drawer over an elaborately inlaid fitted interior with a central door flanked by wide and small drawers. Profusely inlaid throughout with flowers and parrots, the stand with spirally turned legs; the drawers lined with red marbled paper.
height 67 ¾ in.; width 44 ½ in.; depth 20 in.
172 cm.; 113 cm.; 51 cm.
This impressive cabinet bears the influence of Dutch and French cabinet-makers working in the last quarter of the 17thcentury such as Gerrit Jensen, Jan van Meekeren and Pierre Gole. Gole, a Dutchman who moved to Paris to work for the court, was the spearhead of this art of richly inlaid designs of floral motifs and also creator of the brass and tortoiseshell technique made famous by his son-in-law André-Charles Boulle. Gole's son, Cornelius, as many Protestant craftsmen in France, was obliged to move to England and worked in London with Jensen, establishing the interest for floral wood marquetry in this country.
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