A Japanese lacquer cabinet on English gilt-wood stand late 17th century

the cabinet with engraved copper mounts and a pair of doors decorated in tones of gilt with a canopied fence and a fruiting tree with birds enclosing an arrangement of eight similarly decorated drawers, the interior of the doors each with an exotic bird, the elaborate pierced scrolling foliate stand carved with cherubs to the front apron and cartouches to the side aprons, on cabriole supports

'Hagley Park, Worcestershire, The Seat of Viscount Cobham', Country Life, 16 October 1915, p. 525, illustrated in The Great Gallery.

H.A.Tipping, 'The Passing of The Lyttelton Home', Country Life, 2 January 1926, p. 29, fig. 3.

John Cornforth, 'Hagley Hall, Worcestershire - I', Country Life, 27 April, 1989, p. 137, fig. 3.

Country house condition with wear and minor losses to Japanned decoration. The stand with extensive wear and losses to gilding. The copper mounts to the cabinet originally gilded. For further information on this Lot, please contact the English Furniture Department on 00 44 (0) 207 293-5470.
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