Pair of Cabinets c.1700
Ebony, oak, tortoise shell, gilt bronze, brass | 157.5 x 176.5 x 41.2 cm (whole object) | RCIN 21631
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Pair of rectangular ebony and Boulle marquetry cabinets, with white marble tops; the first cabinet principally in première-partie, the marquetry on the companion cabinet being in reverse. Each with three doors, central door with bacchic mask within sunburst above female figure (possibly Ceres) standing on a marquetry and gilt bronze pedestal. Flanking doors veneered principally with arabesques in première-partie, combine hunting and fishing trophies and individual masks and putti of gilt bronze. On six feet.
Provenance
If correctly identified, these cabinets (formerly in the Pediment Stores, Carlton House) may have been purchased by George IV from the dealer, Robert Fogg, in 1813 at a cost of £840. They were sent to Morel & Seddon on 2 and 8 December 1828 for restoring and regilding as part of the group of furniture and furnishings supplied between 1827 and 1829 to King George IV by the partnership of Morel and Seddon for the Corridor at Windsor Castle. Nicholas Morel had formerly worked for The Prince of Wales, later George IV, at Carlton House and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton. Subsequently, he was commissioned to design and furnish the newly built apartments designed by Sir Jeffry Wyattville (1766-1840) for the King at Windsor Castle. In order to fulfil the contract he entered into partnership with George Seddon III whose family had large and long established furniture workshops in Aldersgate Street in the City of London.
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Ebony, oak, tortoise shell, gilt bronze, brass
Measurements
157.5 x 176.5 x 41.2 cm (whole object)
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Other number(s)
Laking FR : Laking, G.F., 1905. The Furniture of Windsor Castle, London – Laking FR p109,pl.30
