Lot 674
An important pair of Victorian period kingwood, gilt bronze and porcelain mounted display cabinets
Auction: 7 May 2008 at 12:00 BST
Description
in two sections, each pagoda top with a hinged lid enclosing a velvet lined interior, the corners with stiff acanthus leaf mounts and centred by a double scroll mask and dragon mount, each frieze with entwined guilloche incorporating Sevres style porcelain roundels above a pair of rosewood crossbanded and kingwood featherbanded bevelled glazed doors, flanked by columnar terminals with Sevres style porcelain insets, each interior now mirror glazed and with a central shelf, each bowfront lower section with a gadrooned and leaf gilt bronze edge above a central exotic bird porcelain plaque enclosed by foliate bouquet mounts and two further porcelain panels, on tapered banded cabriole legs with ornate mounts to the knees and feet, rear of each section bears paper inventory label for 'Shelburne', a former nobleman owner (2)
Dimensions
85cm wide, 149cm high, 40cm deep