A Charles II cream lacquer cabinet on stand (4488901) (c. 1680 England)

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105.00cm wide    163.00cm high    59.00cm deep (41.34 inches wide  64.17 inches high  23.23 inches deep)

Edward Benjamin Esq.;
With Ronald Lee Ltd., London from whom acquired;
Private collection, England

'A Loan Exhibition Depicting the Reign of Charles II', edited by J. Drinkwater, London, 1932, p.90.
'Art Treasurers Exhibition', London, 1932, p.12, illus. p.13.

Price: £50,000 +

Requested for exhibition at Conservation Gallery at The Wallace Collection, London, November, 2008.
'A Loan Exhibition Depicting the Reign of Charles II', 22 & 23 Grosvenor Place, London 28th January-March 1932, no. 751.
'Art Treasures Exhibition', Christie's, Manson & Wood, London, October 12th -November 5th, 1932, no. 31.

A very rare late 17th century cream lacquer cabinet on stand, the cabinet decorated throughout with exotic and brilliant polychrome scenes, the upper section with two folding doors each decorated with a central blue and white vase filled with chrysanthemums and exotic flowers above oriental courtly ladies and children within a landscape and framed within a stylised floral border mounted with elaborate pierced repousse gilt metal hinges and metalwork to the corners centred by an elaborate lock plate, the sides similarly decorated and mounted, the doors decorated on the reverse and enclosing eight drawers with gilt metal drop ring handles, on an elaborately carved and silvered stand with a foliate lip above a pierced foliate apron centred by a blind cartouche with putti supporters with scallop shells to the sides all supported on canted acanthus enriched hipped scroll legs with outward scrolled toes.