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A George I Scarlet Japanned Bureau Cabinet, Circa 1720

Lot Closed

April 16, 04:19 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

in two sections, the upper with a pair of arched and later-glazed doors enclosing a bank of twelve small drawer fronts with two candle slides below; the fall front section with interior arrangement of central cupboard flanked by drawers and pigeonholes; above two short and two long graduated drawers below, on later shaped bracket feet, the whole decorated with equestrian groups, buildings, plants, and fantastic animals, the sides with writhing vines, in various gold tones with black, green, and violet highlights on a scarlet ground


height 8 ft. 3 in.; width 40 in.; depth 25 in.

251.5 cm.; 101.5 cm.; 63.5 cm.

Evelyn H. Dickey, New York;

Butterfield & Butterfield San Francisco, 20 June 1984 lot 542;

Cathy Hardwick, New York

'Manhattan Romance. Fashion Designer Cathy Hardwick returns to Tradition,' Architectural Digest, February 1997, p.101