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Table Cabinet
Maker:
Boscher, Elias
(Maker of cabinet)
Maker:
Grand Ducal Workshops
(Maker of hardstone panels)
Ebony table cabinet with fourteen drawers and forty-four secret drawers and compartments, veneered with varous woods, pietra dura plaques, and with silver-gilt mounts
The cabinet is of 'architectural' form, and on shaped bracket feet. The upper most part has three fitted freize drawers above a large central cupboard door. There is an architectural pediment, inset with a panel depicting a chaffinch on fruiting bough, which is flanked by columns of Smaragdite Gabbro with Corinthian capitals. This is flanked by two deep drawers, which are inset with panels depicting parrots on fruiting boughs. Below are another three fitted drawers.
The central cupboard encloses an architectural interior, and the door is inset with a panel of a flower filled urn in lapis lazuli, from which issues stems including a carnation, daffodil, lillies, and anemone. This is flanked by further Smaragdite Gabbro columns. There are three drawers to each side of the cupboard, inset with symmetrical floral panels, which include tulips, roses, lillies, carnations and bluebells.
Each side of the cabinet is inset with a large central panel, depicting parrots on fruiting boughs, with another four panels above and below. The reverse is veneered in geometric stellar designs, using kingwood, amaranth, and stained walnut.
History note: Amost certainly purchased by Sir Charles Henry Coote, 9th Baronet (1792-1864) for Ballyfin House, Co. Laois, Ireland, before 1841; Sir Charles Henry Coote, 10th Baronet (1815-1895);The Rev. Sir Algernon Coote, 11th Baronet (1817-1899); Sir Algernon Charles Plumptre Coote, 12th Baronet (1847-1920), last member of family at Ballyfin; by descent to present owner; sold Bonham’s, New Bond Street, London, 5 December 2014, European Furniture, Sculpture and Works of Art, lot 20.
Purchased with funds from the Monument Trust, the Monica Beck Legacy, the Abbott Fund, and the Gow Purchase Fund
Depth: 40 cm
Height: 85 cm
Width: 84 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (2014-12-05) by Bonhams
17th Century, third quarter#
Production date:
circa
AD 1660
Mounts
composed of
silver-gilt
Carcase Reverse
composed of
kingwood
amaranth
walnut
Columns
composed of
smaragdite gabbro
Inlay
composed of
lapis lazuli
Carcase
composed of
ebony
Front And Ends
Accession number: M.9-2014
Primary reference Number: 200918
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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