IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 318060 accession number: M.1-2025 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 23 April 2025 updated: Tuesday 19 August 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Two-door cabinet on a stand, containing a bank of eight graduated drawers with bone handles and decorated with central vignettes of figures in landscape. With the original brass 'swan-neck' shaped carrying handles on either side. The cabinets are decorated to the sides and to each door with a large central vignette featuring figures, landscape and architecture, surrounded by a border of two-toned gilded flowers. On the inside, the doors are decorated with gilded bamboo designs on a black ground. Supported on a stand with an indented frieze and four turned and tapering legs with leaf carved gilded capitals and gilded paw feet. object type: Black lacquer and gilt decorated cabinet on stand (one of a pair) title: cabinet on stand NOTES ----- type: history note value: Acquired by Captain Richard Alsager (1781-1841), of the East India Company in China before 1823; Captain Richard (1781-1841) and Mrs Elizabeth Alsager (née Lloyd, 1798-1862), Surrey; by descent to Charlotte Lloyd (1805-c.1880) and Rev. Canon John Manuel Echalaz (1801-1877); their daughter, Ellen Harriet Echalaz (1846-?) and Captain George Woronzow Allen (1842-1915); their children, each inheriting one cabinet, Herbert Warner Allen (1881-1968) and Rev. Lancelot John Allen (1885-?); separately inherited by their children, George Woronzow Warner Allen (1842-1915) and Bruce Allen; the cabinets reunited through inheritance by Ben Allen, son of Bruce Allen; sold, Harry Apter, from whom purchased, 2025 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought with the Elliott Fund, 2025 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/318060 CATEGORIES ------ category: furniture DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 19th Century culture: Qing Dynasty CREATORS -------- maker: Chinese School DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 32 dimension: Height units: cm value: 130 dimension: Width units: cm value: 58