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recto overall with doors closed
Cabinet on Stand
recto overall with doors closed
recto overall with doors closed

Cabinet on Stand

CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1710
MediumPine, oak, paint, and varnish with wood and gold
DimensionsOverall: 94 7/8 × 44 1/2 × 22 7/8 inches (240.98 × 113.03 × 58.1 cm)
.1 (upper): 61 5/8 × 39 1/8 × 21 1/8 inches (156.53 × 99.38 × 53.66 cm)
.2 (lower): 33 1/4 × 44 1/2 × 22 7/8 inches (84.46 × 113.03 × 58.1 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-23.1,2
InscribedOn reverse of upper cabinet, black "2" painted. One reverse of upper cabinet, stamped "I-L" with bars across each letter. On interior of stile on stand, "37047" (French & Co. stock number)
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 122
DescriptionQueen Anne blue lacquer cabinet an original gilded Gesso table base; front with mirrored paneled hinged doors and interior fitted with numerous drawers.Provenance

With Kent Galleries, Ltd., London, by August 11, 1930;

 

Purchased from Kent Galleries, Ltd. by French & Co., New York, stock no. 37047, August 11, 1930-January 30, 1933 [1];

 

Purchased from French & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

 

 

NOTES:

 

[1] Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, French & Co. Stock Sheets, box 42, folder 2, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial file.

Published References

American Art Notes,” The Connoisseur, Vol. XCII No. 388 (Dec. 1933), 420 (repro.)

Cescinsky, Herbert. English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton: A Concise Account of the Development of English Furniture and Woodwork from the Gothic of the Fifteenth Century to the Classic Revival of the Early Nineteenth (New York: Garden City Publishing, 1937), 219-220.

Cescinsky, Herbert. English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton: A Concise Account of the Development of English Furniture and Woodwork from the Gothic of the Fifteenth Century to the Classic Revival of the Early Nineteenth (New York: Dover Publications, 1968), 219-220.

Hinckley, F. Lewis. A Directory of Queen Anne, Early Georgian, and Chippendale Furniture: Establishing the Preeminence of the Dublin Craftsmen.(New York: Crown, 1971), 158 (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 221 (repro.).

Ross Taggert, “The Charm of Chinoiserie,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 56-60 [repr. in Denys Sutton, ed., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City (London: Apollo Magazine, 1972), 7 (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 181 (repro.).

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