AN EXTREMELY RARE RED AND WHITE LACQUERED CABINET ON ORIGINAL SILVER GILT STAND

October 30 2009, 10:46am

With two cupboard doors decorated with chinoiserie figures and foliage and variously shaped panels decorated en grisaille with landscapes and figures mounted with shaped, pierced and engraved lock-plate, hinges and angles enclosing ten various-sized drawers similarly decorated with chinoiserie figures and scenes, vases of flowers, foliage and utensils, the original silver gilt stand with deep pierced frieze carved with a putto, eagles, shells and scrolling acanthus foliage on scrolled feet.