Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
A SWISS WALNUT AND BURR WALNUT THREE-TIER CABINET, THIRD QUARTER 17TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
December 11, 04:05 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A SWISS WALNUT AND BURR WALNUT THREE-TIER CABINET, THIRD QUARTER 17TH CENTURY
with a drawer above a pair of panelled doors enclosing shelves, the central section with a slide and two further doors enclosing a fitted interior of drawers around a cupboard, the lower tier with a chest of two long and three short drawers, the sides with steel carrying handles, with a paper label part printed LUCERNE to the reverse
230cm. high, 130cm. wide, 59cm. deep; 7ft. 6½in., 4ft. 3in., 1ft. 11¼in.
Probably Robert Valentine Berkeley (1853-1940) and Rose Berkeley (1861-1922), possibly acquired by them in Lucerne, Switzerland
‘Spetchley Park -I. Worcestershire, The Seat of Mr. R. V. Berkeley', Country Life, 8 July 1916, p. 47, illustrated in the Entrance Hall and described;
Inventory, 1949, 'A Carved Swiss cabinet in walnut, 3’7' in the Front Hall