A PAIR OF FLEMISH GILT-LACQUERED-BRONZE-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL, WALNUT AND EBONY CABINETS-ON-STAND MID 17TH CENTURY, THE STANDS 19TH CENTURY

Each with rectangular top above an edge with pierced clasps, with an arrangement of eight drawers with ripple-moulded borders surrounding an architectural facade centred by a balustrade-galleried frieze drawer, above a removable niche containing a statue concealing three further drawers, flanked by two Corinthian columns, some losses to mouldings, the sides formerly with handles, on later ebonised stands
531⁄2 in. (136 cm.) high; 41 in. (104 cm.) wide; 131⁄4 in. (34 cm. deep)

Provenance
Depicted in 1880 in The House Builders by Sir Frank Dicksee, portraying Sir William Welby-Gregory, 4th Bart. and Lady Welby-Gregory;
thence by descent at Denton Manor until 1939;
thence by descent.