An Italian rosewood and ebony and ebonised cabinet on stand mounted with reverse paintings on glass, Neapolitan 19th century, incorporating 17th century elements

of canted form, with a drawer above a door enclosing a fitted interior with two long and five short drawers

Sir Charles Henry Tempest, 1st Bt. (1834 - 1894), thence by descent to Ethel Mary Tempest (1869 - 1937) who married Miles Stapleton, 10th Lord Beaumont (1850 - 1895) thence by descent.

M. Girouard, 'Carlton Towers, Yorkshire III', Country Life, 9 February 1967, p.280, illustrated in the Venetian Drawing Room.

C. Wainright, 'Carlton Towers, Yorkshire, Country Life, 1 December 1994, p.82, illustrated in the Card Room.

Good general condition. Some sections of moulding missing on drawer fronts and at top of the capitals as can be seen in catalogue photograph. There is a female mask mount missing above the door. There are patches to the rosewood veneers on the sides and restored vertical cracks. Veneer sections missing from the left side and also losses around bottom edge of cabinet. There are hairline cracks in the veneer which do not detract from the piece. The ebonised stand also has hairline age cracks.
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