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Dressing cabinet
Dressing cabinet

Dressing cabinet

About 1720
Medium/TechniqueMother of pearl, bone, dark wood inlay, cypress, silver
DimensionsHeight x width: 130 x 59 x 34 cm (51 3/16 x 23 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.)
Credit LineHenry H. and Zoe Oliver Sherman Fund
Accession number2014.1471
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ClassificationsFurniture
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Provenance18th century, probably commissioned for the Mendoza family, Spain or Portugal [see note 1]. Probably by 1863, Andrés Parladé y Sánchez de Quiros (b. 1831 – d. 1933), 2nd Count of Aguilar, Seville, Spain [see note 2]; by descent to his son, Andrés Parladé y Heredia (b. 1854), 3rd Count of Aguilar, and his wife María Candelaria de Alvear y Gómez de la Cortina; by descent in the Alvear family, Córdova and Madrid; 2013, sold by the Alvear family to Carteia Fine Art, Madrid; 2014, sold by Carteia Fine Art to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 29, 2014)

NOTES:
[1] The dressing cabinet bears the coat–of-arms of the Mendoza family (in center of the frieze above the drawer) and an as-yet-unidentified coat of arms (in the center of the base molding). [2] How precisely the collector Andrés Parladé came to own the cabinet is not known; however, a March 20, 1863 edition of the Madrid newspaper Las Novedades was found in the mirror section, likely marking the date when the mirror glass was replaced. It is entirely likely that he acquired the cabinet around this time.