PAIR OF CHINESE BLACK LACQUER, GILT, AND HARDSTONE MOUNTED CABINETS-ON-STANDS
18TH CENTURY
£50,200
Auction: Day 1 - Wed 14th May from 10am | Lots 1 to 313
Description
both with pairs of doors depicting matching landscapes with pavilions, temples, bridges, and mountains, mounted with relief-carved hardstones of boys at play, the doors with gilt metal strap mounts and large escutcheons, opening to interiors fitted with arrangements of long and short drawers depicting riverside villages and landscapes; on carved giltwood stands with armorial cartouches to the aprons, raised on C scroll legs joined by an X stretcher (2)
Dimensions
108cm wide, 166cm high, 52cm deep
Provenance
Almost certainly acquired for Kincaldrum House, near Forfar, Angus, by Edward Baxter (1791-1871), a prominent Dundee merchant who acquired the estate in 1853 and remodelled the mansion house. They are listed in an inventory drawn up for his grandson Edward Armistead Baxter (1848-1933) in 1907 by Rutherford Thomson of Arbroath.