English Victorian Exhibition Quality Cabinet in the Orientalist Style

A Victorian single door mahogany cabinet in the French taste, of upright rectangular form with a grey marble top set above a frieze with a disguised drawe...

A Victorian kingwood display cabinet in French taste, of rectangular form with a glazed top and front doors enclosing a single glass shelf, decorated with...

This walnut cabinet has a shaped, stepped top above a central glazed door enclosing four Moroccan leather drawers with cedar linings. Flanked by eight smaller disguised drawers, the ...

Pair of late Regency rosewood side cabinets, in the French Empire style, each of rectangular form with a disguised frieze drawer and brass gallery above cupboard doors between two ta...

The square central section is glazed, mirrored and rotates, with additional inner frames, all above a frieze with a disguised drawer, surmounted by a pagoda roof with upswept eaves, pendant bronze bells, aoi mon and serpentine dragons, the finial comprising a ho-ho with open wings; the base comprises four deeply carved cabriole legs with ho-hoshoulders and feathered claw feet resting on minogame whose tails support a circular spinach-marble shelf, with a similar marble set into the solid stretcher, decorated throughout with cloud scrolls, tendrils, inro and many auspicious symbols, the creatures’ eyes rendered in mother-of-pearl, inscribed ‘Behold fire’, Yokohama, Japan, circa 1900. Provenance: Fletcher’s Auction House, Houston, Texas. October 9-11 1981 Catalogue. Lot number 583 and envelope illustration. Footnote: This is an intriguing cabinet in many ways. The inscription “hino yojin” indicates a place for candlesticks or other light sources in a grand interior, however the inner drilled frames within the glass doors, and the fact that the whole display section rotates, would suggest something of great value and artistic merit was displayed inside. The carvings are related to the mythological Palace of the Dragon God of the Sea, (Ryugu-jo). Depending on various versions of the legend this underwater palace was made from pure crystal, each of the four sides had a different season and one day in the palace was equal to a century in our world. The most famous legend refers to Urashima Taro who was carried down to this magical place on the back of a minogame or giant turtle...

A mid-Victorian kingwood serpentine cabinet, English in the French style, the shaped top with burr-walnut half veneers within kingwood banding and b...

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Superb exhibition quality 19th century English cabinet by Lamb of Manchester, the raised pierced brass gallery above large rectangular coromandel top and ebonized edge. To the freeze with gilded detail and central cameo. The base section is fitted with a large central glazed door opening to reveal a green leather-lined interior. Flanked by a pair of paneled doors with oval female...

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