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Cabinet on Stand

about 1680–90
Medium/TechniqueCabinet: panels of late 17th-century Chinese lacquer; oak and spruce carcass; engraved gilt brass-mounts; Stand: maple and pine, carved and gilt
DimensionsOverall (stand): 78.8 x 136.9 x 58.6 cm (31 x 53 7/8 x 23 1/16 in.)
Overall (cabinet): 91.4 x 112.2 x 47.8 cm (36 x 44 3/16 x 18 13/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.2528a-b
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsFurniture
Collections
ProvenanceEarl of Chesterfield, Bretby Hall, Derbyshire, England. May 29, 1918, sold at Christie's, London (lot number unknown). By 1945, with Basil Dighton, New York; October 25, 1945, sold by Basil Dighton to Forsyth Wickes, New York and Newport, RI (d. 1964); 1965, bequest of Wickes. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)
Cabinet
about 1880
Petit Commode
Jacques Dubois
about 1755–60
Secretary
Roger Vandercruse (called Lacroix)
about 1760–65
Desk
about 1745–50 (?)
Looking glass
about 1800-1815
Fall-Front Desk
about 1700
Bracket Clock
Markwick-Markham partnership
about 1760–80
Secretaire a Abattant
about 1850–80
Chest of Drawers
Jean-Ferdinand Schwerdfeger
about 1788
Console table
Adam Weisweiler
about 1785
Writing table
Jean-Henri Riesener
about 1780–85
Secretary and Jewel Cabinet on Stand
Bernard van Risenburgh II
about 1760