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Circa 1900 Chinese Cypress Wood Cabinet with Three (3) Drawers, Two (2) Doors, Painted Decoration to Front. Unsigned. Measures 34-1/4" H, 35-3/4" W, 19-1/2" D. Condition: Small burn to top, rubbing and typical surface wear from normal use. Domestic Shipping: Third party Min Est. $400.00 Max Est. $600.00
AN IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT BOOKCASE, part of the original furnishings of Ely House, Dublin, the dentil moulded cornice above a four door bookcase, decorated with Gothic lancet glazing bars above fielded cupboard door base. 282cm high, 346cm wide Provenance: Collection of Fine Art Property of Dr. Thornley Stoker, Ely House, 8 Ely Place, Dublin, 8th November, 1910, lot 863 This handsome Chippendale pattern mahogany bookcase was lot 863 in one of the most spectacular house contents auctions Dublin has ever seen. Taking place in November 1910, it was that of Dr. Thornley Stoker whose fierce reputation has faded, but that of his brother Bram has only gone stratospheric thanks to his creation, “Dracula”. The sale of over 1600 lots represented a life-time of collecting. George Moore leaves a description of Sir Thornley hopping about the antique dealers in Grafton Street ‘Like an old magpie’ prying out spoons and forks. Moore, unsuccessfully, tries to persuade the grumpy old doctor to back Hugh Lanes project for a Modern Art Gallery in Dublin. Moore, a neighbour frequently visits Dr Stoker and well knows his fine collection housed in his palazzo, Ely House, but can’t resist retelling Dublin cynicism as to its genesis. “Up and down Liffey Street, lately, on the trail of a Sheraton sideboard and Naylor has been asked to keep it till an appendices should turn up; the Chinese Chippendale mirror over the drawing-room chimney piece originated in an unsuccessful operation for cancer; the Aubusson carpet in the back-drawing room represents a hernia; the Renaissance bronze on the landing a set of gall-stones; the Ming Cloisonné a floating kidney; the Buhl cabinet his opinion on an enlarged liver; and Lady Stokers jewels a series of small operations performed over a number of years”. Moore declares the collection will never be sold in his lifetime but on his death, there will be a great auction. This bookcase, filled with part of Dr. Stoker’s china collection is given a full-page illustration and is described as ‘Chippendale’. A bookcase of similar design, with the addition of a broken triangular pediment, c.1766, is illustrated in Gilbert, ‘The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale’ (1978), p.41
Chinese Postcards and Photographs - includes a large selection of 1930s postcards and prints of rural scenes, Shanghai, 3x c.1800 Suzuki Cabinet Cards, Weihsien Prisoner of War Camp photographs with a SS Tamaroa Passenger Card for a British female A. M. Cliff, large Photographs of the Forbidden City and Jade Belt Bridge, a selection of Photographs depicting Chefoo around the 1930s, plus other paperwork, some prints included - condition mixed A/G, many laid to card, worth inspecting (160+)
Mid-19th Century Documents Relating to a H.S. Cliff - to include 3x 1920s/30s Chinese Passports, Royal Army Medical Corps thank you card signed by Major General Belford, Honourable Discharge card 1919, 1918 "Gallant Conduct & Devotion To Duty" Card Sergeant Cliff from Major General N.W.R. Barnes, Pharmaceutical Certificates 1919, China Inland Mission Certificate 1926, 1919 South African Pharmacy Chemist and Druggist Registration Certificate, plus various family member documents, plus a selection of Cabinet Cards by Turner, WWII Air Mail Letter Cards to Ex Prisoner of War in UK, various 1920s Postcards, photographs and prints with some depicting Soldiers in Uniform, postcards sent from China to Cliff family members, and more, condition mixed A/G (135+)
An 18th Century Chinese black lacquer cabinet on stand, engraved brass fittings, the whole with gild decoration of chinoiserie scenes, double door opening to a fitted interior with drawers, on a later stand with bracket feet, height 95cm, width 92cm, depth 48cm CONDITION:Top: several areas to back missing lacquer down to carcass. Discolouration in parts, some lifting/warped areas intermittently all over the top surface. LHS of cabinet: top edge missing 4 parts (max 4cms). Bottom edge chipped to carcass. Front LHS door: bottom hinge present but loose and this has left corresponding damage where previously attached. Door handle missing and both of the left side of central brass panel are broken off and not present. Some cracks to the lacquer with a 3cm most noticeable . One crack from top of door coming down. Another noticeable to bottom right near corner bracket. Inside of the door in nice condition. RHS of cabinet : back top corner piece missing piece. Missing veneer to bottom back right which has been recoloured as restoration. No tom LHS damaged lacquer. RHS front door : crack running down the centre of the door and some cracks to the bottom. All hinges and brass present and attached. Inside of the door is scratched, bottom has lifted vneer and the panel is cracked down through the centre. Inside the cabinet: opening to reveal 14 painted drawers. All drawers handles are present and securely attached. Painting colour is good but dirty. Some chips to the edges of the drawers. Top right drawer is missing a piece of lacquer underneath the handle. Bottom right drawer has damaged lacquer to base. Cabinet stand: all legs sound and strong.
A Chinese lacquered cabinet, 20th Century The cabinet with twin hinged door, revealing two interior shelves and compartments, applied with a brass moon lock plate, the exterior sides painted in red and black lacquer depicting domestic figural scenes and images of officials and attendants, height 200cm, 118cm wide, 61cm deep.
A late 19th Century Chinese Chinoiserie lacquered ladies sewing and collectors cabinet, probably late 18th Century, shaped pediment, fitted with two doors enclosing a fitted interior of drawers, a door and pigeon holes, with a drawer to base, raised on square legs, the whole decorated with lacquered Chinese scenes on papier mache, 130cm high, 53cm wide, 54cm deep
ATTRIBUTED SIR ROBERT LORIMER FOR WHYTOCK & REID, EDINBURGHINLAID MAHOGANY, BURR WALNUT AND PAINTED CABINET ON STAND, CIRCA 1920with glazed sides and two glazed doors, the frames inlaid with burrwood panels and enclosing a shaped shelf to the interior, the whole raised on a green patinated stand with gilded carved elements123cm wide, 137cm high, 54cm deepProvenance: Paul Reeves, LondonLiterature: Savage, Peter, 'Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers', Steve Savage 1980, p. 89, plate 175Note: Although Lorimer had used the Edinburgh cabinet makers Whytock & Reid in the 19th century, from around 1900 they increasingly became his favoured cabinetmakers because of their skill in interpreting his design sketches and their high quality workmanship.Lorimer did not hold copyright over his work, and many examples of what may have started as his designs became Whytock & Reid pieces which, as modified for other customers, became examples of the firms' look.This fine display cabinet, probably a one off commission, is designed in the Chinese taste, an aesthetic Lorimer favoured in the later part of his career and employed in commissions such as Glencruitten House, near Oban, in 1927. The cabinet demonstrates all the characteristic features of his output including high quality inlaid cabinetmaking using fine timbers, with low relief carved and moulded detail.
A fine set of eight George III carved mahogany dining chairs in the manner of Robert Manwaring:, the backs with trellis work centred with quatrefoils in blind fret geometric surrounds, serpentine top rails with incised lattice and reeded pagoda crestings and cabochon rocaille ornament, the upholstered stuff over seats with blind fret seat rails and square chamfered legs, headed with pierced fret spandrels.*Provenance Kingsnympton Park, Devon.* Notes The present chairs closely relate to a design by Robert Manwaring illustrated in 'The Cabinet and Chair-Makers Real Friend and Companion,' 1765, pl. 13 and can also be compared with a design for a similar lattice-back chair illustrated by Thomas Chippendale in 'The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director', 1754, pl. XXII.* Notes Manwaring described himself as a cabinet-maker trading from the Haymarket, although no marked or documented furniture by him has yet come to light. Instead, he is best remembered for a series of publications in the 1760's of Rococo, Chinese and Gothic designs, from which the present chair is derived.'The Cabinet and Chair-Maker's Real Friend and Companion' gives advice on types of wood, painted finishes and even loose cushions, and indeed, Manwaring states that he has executed some of the designs for chairs, although these are not known to exist.Related examples include a set of chairs recorded in the Goldschmitt collection, illustrated in Ralph Edwards and Percy Macquoid 'The Dictionary of English Furniture' rev. ed., 3 vols, 1954, vol I, p. 286, fig. 192; a single chair illustrated in Francis Spar (ed.) 'Le Style Anglais' 1750 - 1850, 1959, p. 96, and an armchair now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Francis Lenygon 'Furniture in England from 1660 - 1760', 1914, p. 64, fig 92.* Notes A similar set of fourteen chairs was sold from the collection of Captain C W D Worthington, Kingston Russell House, Dorset, Christies, 24th September 1984.
A CHINESE ELMWOOD TWO-DRAWER COFFER TABLE, LATE 19TH CENTURYa table of a coffer cabinet, with two suspending loose bronze handles, lower portion of the cabinet has a hidden storage space, each part is elaborately carved with motifs including chrysanthemum, prunus blossoms, birds with flowers, Eight Precious Things (Babao) on the bottom, dimensions: 87.6 x 108 x 74.9 cm (34 1/2 x 42 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.)

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