PAIR OF HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT BOULLE CABINETS

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€100,000 - €150,000

PAIR OF HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT BOULLE CABINETS

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Pair 19th-century ormolu-mounted, ebony pewter brass and tortoiseshell boulle marquetry cabinets, each with a rectangular shaped top above 2 glazed leaf scroll inlaid doors flanking a bacchic mask and ram's head decorated central panelled door between fluted brass inset columns on a gadroon moulded base fronted by lion masks terminating on turned toupie feet.

Provenance: Research indicates that they were sold as separate lots at the Kilkenny Castle dispersal sale in 1935 Lots 311 and 312, cf. photograph by Robert French showing the cabinets in the Long Gallery,1865; further a press cutting from 1935 with an illustration of one of the cabinets on the first day of the dispersal sale and a report on the second day of the sale indicating that one of the cabinets was sold for £37 and 10 shillings. 140 cm. high; 232 cm. wide; 55 cm. deep FURNITURE