A GEORGE III PAINTED AND INLAID FIGURED MAHOGANY AND SATINWOOD CABINET circa 1790

the molded cornice with a curved pediment painted at the center with a flower head within a beaded circle and with paneled lines, the moldings painted with leaf tips above a frieze decorated with a trellis pattern, the two tulipwood cross banded doors below within narrow recessed styles and with line inlaid borders at the top and bottom, and centered by an oval panel inset with brass grillwork enclosing shelves, the lower part with two cross banded doors centered by recessed oval figured panels with similar narrow recessed stiles, and raised on a conforming plinth.

F. Lewis Hinckley, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and Regency Furniture, New York, 1987, p. 223., pl. 89, or possibly its pair

Overall good condition, electrified and pierced, the interior lined with watered silk, the cornice lacking finials, some very minor chips to paint with minor areas of inpainting, some minor inpainted stress cracks and minor chips and losses to veneers, overall with some old marks, scratches, scuffs and bruises consistent with age and use.
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This interesting cabinet was originally one of a pair, its companion having recently been recorded on the New York art market. Veneered in richly figured mahogany, with plainer satinwood being used as the background to the painted decoration on the arched pediment, its elegant form is accentuated by the narrow recessed style. Possibly the same cabinet, or its pair, which was illustrated by the New York firm of Needhams Antiques in their catalogue, undated but circa 1960, p. 19.