Furniture
CABINETS- Cabinet on Stand
Circa 1690-1700
Painted, gessoed, and silvered wood;
brass mounts
Cabinet: Height: 2 ft. 854 in. (82.5 cm);
Width: 3 ft. ι in. (93.9 cm); Depth:
ι ft. 7Κ in. (49.5 cm); Stand: Height:
2 ft. 7% in. (79.3 cm); Width: 3 ft. 5% in.
(104.7 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 11% in. (59.6 cm)
Accession number 78.DA.117
PROVENANCE
Mrs. Geoffrey Hart, London; purchased by
J. Paul Getty, 1961.EXHIBITIONS
London, The Victoria and Albert Museum,
The Orange and the Rose: Holknd and
Britain in the Age of Observation, 1600-1750,
October 1964-January 1965, no. 220; New
York, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum and
Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum, Courts
and Colonies: The William and Mary Style in
Holland, EngUnd, and America, November
1988-May 1989, no. 107, p. 157, illus.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
R. W. Symonds, "The City of Westminster
and Its Furniture Makers," Connoisseur 100
(July 1937), pp. 3-9, illus. pp. 2, 9; R. W.
Symonds, "The Age of Charles II," Con
noisseur 111 (June 1943), illus. p. 125; Horace
Shipp, "A Home and Its Treasures: Mrs;
Geoffrey Hart's Collection at Hyde Park
Gardens, "Apollo 62 (December 1955), illus.
p. 181; R. W. P. Luff, "Oriental Lacquer and
English Japan: Some Cabinets from the Col
lection of Mr. J. Paul Getty at Sutton Place,
Surrey," The Antique Collector (December
1962), pp. 256-261, illus. p. 259, fig. 5.268 ENGLISH CABINETS
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