A FLEMISH GILT-METAL-MOUNTED EBONY, TORTOISESHELL AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED CABINET

A FLEMISH GILT-METAL-MOUNTED EBONY, TORTOISESHELL AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED CABINET
17TH CENTURY, THE STAND 19TH CENTURY
With a concaved top with baluster finials at the angles, above a pair of ripple-moulded panelled doors centred by mounts of Hercules, with mirrored backs, opening to reveal a fitted interior with ten drawers painted with Biblical and mythological scenes, including the Annunciation, Perseus and Andromeda, and Narcissus, centred by an architectural cupboard door with a reverse-glass-painted panel with an allegory of Charity, enclosing a further mirrored interior, the sides conformingly panelled and mounted with drop-handles, with a lower frieze-drawer, raised on paw feet, on a later George II style stand on cabriole legs and variously mounted with foliate mounts
62 ½ in. (158 cm.) high; 39 ½ in. (105 cm.) wide; 17 ½ in. (45 cm.) deep

Provenance
Major Sir Edward Feetham Coates, M.P., J.P., D.L. (1853-1921), and thence by descent.