Four Door Breakfront Rosewood & Brass Inlaid Side Cabinet
Four Door Breakfront Rosewood & Brass Inlaid Side Cabinet
English
circa 1805 - 1815
An exceptional Regency rosewood inlaid breakfront four door side cabinet, attributed to Gillows.
The shaped top is highly figured with book-matched veneers in the finest rosewood and fitted with the original gilt brass gallery. The gallery is also of the highest quality having been made with a complicated open fret fan motif that decorates the side cabinet beautifully.
The breakfront frieze below is inlaid with Buhl (Boulle) rectangular panels to each section and the cabinet interior is fitted with velvet lined adjustable shelves. The cut brass panels sit above a tightly carved gadrooned moulding that sits above four silk lined doors with trellis-and-rosette grilles that retain the original brass locks and escutcheons.
The doors are divided by four crisply carved solid rosewood fluted pilasters with scrolling corbels that sit above and below the columns with a matching gadrooned moulding to the apron above crisply carved and turned six rosewood bun feet.
Condition
Excellent
Literature
We can say that the cabinet is attributed to Gillows of Lancaster and London because of Gillow Drawing room elevations that feature furniture such/similar as this cabinet among a group of watercolours in the Victoria and Albert Museum (E.47-1952).
Also the Buhl work is near identical to lot 21, Regency Brass inlaid Rosewood Library Desk, by Gillow, Hackwood Park, Basingstoke, Hampshire. The Property of The Estate of The 2nd Viscount Camrose. Christies Auction, London, 1998.
Dimensions
Height 91.44cm (36 inches)
Width 168.00cm (66.14 inches)
Depth 45.72cm (18 inches)
Stock No: 10769
£22,500.00
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