VICTORIAN AMBOYNA, EBONISED, PORCELAIN, AND GILT METAL MOUNTED SIDE CABINET
19TH CENTURY
£2,016
Auction: Five Centuries: 16 November 2023 From 10:00
Description
the breakfront top with a brass galleried central section with a mirrored recess flanked by doors with three-quarter brass galleries over panels mounted with Sèvres style porcelain plaques depicting French beauties against a blue celeste ground, all flanked and divided by fluted columns; the lower section with a moulded brass edge over three frieze drawers mounted with a rinceau frieze and further porcelain plaques, the centre drawer with a gilt tooled leather writing slope with easel support, above two mirror backed tiers flanked by fluted tapered supports, raised on toupie feet
Dimensions
135cm wide, 152cm high, 55cm deep
Provenance
Provenance: The Ashley Hall Collection: By order of The Trustees of the J. Porter Trust & The Executors of the late Leonard Rawcliffe