A Victorian Parcel-Gilt Rosewood Side Cabinet, 19th Century

A Victorian Parcel-Gilt Rosewood Side Cabinet, 19th Century
with white marble top

height 35 ½ in.; width 80 in.; depth 17 ¼ in.
90.3 cm; 203.3 cm; 43.8 cm

Condition Report:
The pilasters with slightly rubbed gilding, base with scratches and veneer loss at the left and right side corner.

Catalogue Note:
This Side Cabinet of black-figured rosewood, with its marble top supported by palm-wrapped 'Pompeian' columns and a stepped 'stylobate' plinth, is designed in the robust Grecian fashion of the early 19th century. Such 'Dwarf' cabinets, with silk-curtained doors and with tops dressed with vases, busts, etc., served in fashionable Living Rooms, Breakfast Rooms as well as Libraries, as featured in George Smith's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826 (pl. 142).

Provenance:
Important English Furniture, Including property from the Kersey Coates Reed House: A David Adler & Frances Elkins Commission

Christie's New York, 27 October 2006, lot 108