TWO JAPANESE EXPORT EDO PERIOD COPPER-MOUNTED BLACK, GOLD AND POLYCHROME LACQUER CABINETS ON REGENCY EBONISED, GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION STANDS The lacquer cabinets second half of the 17th Century The Regency stands attributed to James Newton Each with foliate-engraved copper escutcheons and spandrels, the first with rectangular top decorated in iroe hiramakie on a roironui ground with trailing foliage in a nashiji border, above a pair of doors decorated with kin in a mountainous coastal landscape with mother-of-pearl inlaid flowers and birds within a hanabishi border, enclosing a fitted interior with nine variously-sized drawers inlaid with mother-of-pearl and decorated with island landscapes with a goose, cranes and temples, the reverse of the doors depicting cranes and bamboo, the sides decorated with temples beneath pine trees and with later carrying-handles, above a later japanned bracket base with foliate-engraved brass mounts, the second with plain top and two doors decorated with a mountainous island landscape with temples and villages within a speckled-orange border and enclosing a fitted interior with ten variously-sized drawers decorated with bamboo, pine and other foliage with nashiji lacquer interiors, the reverse of the doors with foliage and island landscapes and the sides with foliate-engraved carrying-handles above a waved bracket base, the Regency stands each with moulded lapetted stiff-leaf collar above a panelled palmette frieze supported by leopard-mask monopodium with bound fasce reeded legs, the back legs in the form of tapering fluted and reeded bound fasce torches with stiff-leaf capitals, the ebonised plinth with gilt lines and lapetted foliate and dart moulding, above a waved apron and on bracket feet, the first with English 19th Century interior ring-handles and one infilled side-apron inscribed in chalk M. H. Hudson , with handwritten label to one 'Unpacked fr. a box long in D. Roberts tower may have belonged to Maria M. of Bute 1887 CARDIFF CASTLE CARDIFF '; the stands with later blocks to the feet The former 41½in. (105.5cm.) wide; 70¾in. (179.5cm.) high; 22½in. (57cm.) deep The latter 39in. (99cm.) wide; 70in. (178cm.) high; 21¾in. (55cm.) deep (2)
TWO JAPANESE EXPORT EDO PERIOD COPPER-MOUNTED BLACK, GOLD AND POLYCHROME LACQUER CABINETS ON REGENCY EBONISED, GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION STANDS The lacquer cabinets second half of the 17th Century The Regency stands attributed to James Newton Each with foliate-engraved copper escutcheons and spandrels, the first with rectangular top decorated in iroe hiramakie on a roironui ground with trailing foliage in a nashiji border, above a pair of doors decorated with kin in a mountainous coastal landscape with mother-of-pearl inlaid flowers and birds within a hanabishi border, enclosing a fitted interior with nine variously-sized drawers inlaid with mother-of-pearl and decorated with island landscapes with a goose, cranes and temples, the reverse of the doors depicting cranes and bamboo, the sides decorated with temples beneath pine trees and with later carrying-handles, above a later japanned bracket base with foliate-engraved brass mounts, the second with plain top and two doors decorated with a mountainous island landscape with temples and villages within a speckled-orange border and enclosing a fitted interior with ten variously-sized drawers decorated with bamboo, pine and other foliage with nashiji lacquer interiors, the reverse of the doors with foliage and island landscapes and the sides with foliate-engraved carrying-handles above a waved bracket base, the Regency stands each with moulded lapetted stiff-leaf collar above a panelled palmette frieze supported by leopard-mask monopodium with bound fasce reeded legs, the back legs in the form of tapering fluted and reeded bound fasce torches with stiff-leaf capitals, the ebonised plinth with gilt lines and lapetted foliate and dart moulding, above a waved apron and on bracket feet, the first with English 19th Century interior ring-handles and one infilled side-apron inscribed in chalk M. H. Hudson , with handwritten label to one 'Unpacked fr. a box long in D. Roberts tower may have belonged to Maria M. of Bute 1887 CARDIFF CASTLE CARDIFF '; the stands with later blocks to the feet The former 41½in. (105.5cm.) wide; 70¾in. (179.5cm.) high; 22½in. (57cm.) deep The latter 39in. (99cm.) wide; 70in. (178cm.) high; 21¾in. (55cm.) deep (2)
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