A WILLIAM III PARCEL-GILT SCARLET-JAPANNED BRASS-MOUNTED CABINET ON A STAND, STAND POSSIBLY CONTINENTAL Late 17th Century

Two drawers with an old paper label printed with a monogram CES above Ascot Lodge. / Ascot. / Berks. Carcass with an old inked inscription Hon bl Emily Cullen?  Underside of one drawer with inked inscription ESC / Ascot Lodge / 1893 and with a faint inscription  Thought (?)... / ... Street (?) of O.C... / 1745 (?)

Ascot Lodge, Ascot, Berkshire

Overall good restored condition; exterior decoration to cabinet extensively refreshed and with later additions to decoration and with small chips and losses and minor areas of lifting in places; the interior decoration with some restorations. The stand in good condition, re-gilded, small chips and losses to gilding towards extremities and with some minor areas of old worm.
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This stand is conceived in the Franco-Dutch style of Daniel Marot and his circle, whose published designs were of seminal influence to both Continental and English Royal cabinet work produced in the early 1700s. Daniel Marot was the son of the French architect Jean Marot (1619-1679). The younger Marot became architect and designer to the stadholder of the Dutch Republic, William of Orange-Nassau (1650-1702). The former worked in the French court style and influenced the decorative arts in the Netherlands and England. His best work is known through his engravings Oeuvres de Sr. D. Marot, architecte de Guillaume III, which was published for the first time in the Hague in 1703. It was expansive and included designs from buildings to gardens, interiors, textiles, metalwork and furniture.  The design of the present table is closely related to a number of plates with term figures supporting the frieze and joined by foliate swags and ending in scrolled supports.  It is almost identical to Marot's design of a pier table found on plate 8, of Nouveaux Livre d'Orfeuverie.