£8,750
Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art | 673
Auction: Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art
the inverted breakfront top over a leaf tip carved frieze, above a pair of carved fluted panel doors centred by lions masks and flanked by large elliptical flower motifs, opening to a shelved interior, the side panels similarly carved, on a conforming plinth base with further carved leaf tip moulding
Provenance: Kimmerghame, Duns, the Estate of the Late Major General Sir John Swinton K.C.V.O., O.B.E., D.L.
Note: The present cabinet, with its robustly carved panels with deep undulating fluting bears some similarites to a set of twelve gilt and painted stools made by John Linnell for Kedleston Hall for the 1st Lord Scarsdale. Other pieces by Linnell with the same deep fluting but to designs by Robert Adam, can be found on a pair of dining room urns and pedestals at Osterley Park, made for Robert Child in 1767.