Antique English Edwardian Marquetry Corner Cabinet c.1900

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Seller: regentantiquesuk ✉️ (2,920) 100%, Location: London N4 1BX, GB, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 281635854497 Antique English Edwardian Marquetry Corner Cabinet c.1900.

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Antique English Edwardian Marquetry Corner Cabinet c.1900

This is a fabulous antique English Edwardian profusely inlaid corner cabinet, circa 1900 in date.

The cabinet is made of rich mahogany  and has satinwood inlay with garlands, swags, urns and floral motifs, as well as satinwood and ebony crossbanding.

The upper section has a thirteen panel astragal glazed door and the lower section has a panel door which is richly inlaid with marquetry.

The cabinet has working locks and keys and is a fantastic example of the Edwardian master craftsman’s work.
 

Condition:

In excellent condition having been beautifully restored in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation.

 

Dimensions in cm:

Height 198 x Width 89 x Depth 48

Dimensions in inches:

Height 6 foot, 6 inches x Width 2 foot, 11 inches x Depth 1 foot, 7 inches

Mahogany 
is probably one of the largest ‘families’ of hardwood, having many different varieties within its own species.

Mahogany has been used for centuries in ship building, house building, furniture making etc and is the core structure of just about every 19th century vanity box, dressing case or jewellery box. It became more of a Victorian trend to dress Mahogany with these decorative veneers, such as Rosewood, Kingwood, Burr Walnut and Coromandel, so that the actual Mahogany was almost hidden from view.

Mahogany itself is a rich reddish brown wood that can range from being plain in appearance to something that is so vibrant, figured and almost three dimensional in effect. 

Although Mahogany was most often used in its solid form, it also provided some beautifully figured varieties of veneer like ‘Flame’ Mahogany and ‘Fiddleback’ Mahogany (named after its preferred use in the manufacture of fine musical instruments).

Satinwood 
is a hard and durable wood with a satinlike sheen, much used in cabinetmaking, especially in marquetry . It comes from two tropical trees of the family Rutaceae (rue  family). East Indian or Ceylon satinwood is the yellowish or dark-brown heartwood of Chloroxylon swietenia. 

The lustrous, fine-grained, usually figured wood is used for furniture, cabinetwork, veneers, and backs of brushes. West Indian satinwood, sometimes called yellow wood, is considered superior. It is the golden yellow, lustrous, even-grained wood found in the Florida Keys and the West Indies. 

It has long been valued for furniture. It is also used for musical instruments, veneers, and other purposes. Satinwood is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order Sapindales, family Rutaceae. 

 

Marquetry
is decorative artistry where pieces of material (such as wood, mother of pearl, pewter, brass silver or shell) of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers.

The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence . Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati "-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura , for the "hardstones" used: onyx , jasper , cornelian , lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique.

Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins , charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV . Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle , who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes ) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing shell and brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs.

 

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  • Type: Corner Cabinet
  • Brand: Unbranded
  • itemheight: 198 cm
  • itemlength: 48 cm
  • itemwidth: 89 cm
  • numberofshelves: 4

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