1676916154000 1745421752000 Standard Record object-318060 1756922460324 1755606825000 1756922458499 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-318060 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/318060 c76691cc-e3bb-348d-949d-8810ac8f2856 7 reference term-67107 adlib-term-67107 a60d0be2-2105-3b16-a693-a7206db57074 furniture reference term-32149 adlib-term-32149 8d0a972c-4bee-31ec-9bee-976d7cc14d21 bone reference term-40335 adlib-term-40335 80b8ec5a-ae92-3ae0-8967-f2a28e1658d4 brass (alloy) Handles Applied Arts Black lacquer and gilt decorated cabinet on stand (one of a pair) Two-door cabinet on a stand, containing a bank of eight graduated drawers with bone handles and decorated with central vignettes of figures in landscape. With the original brass 'swan-neck' shaped carrying handles on either side. The cabinets are decorated to the sides and to each door with a large central vignette featuring figures, landscape and architecture, surrounded by a border of two-toned gilded flowers. On the inside, the doors are decorated with gilded bamboo designs on a black ground. Supported on a stand with an indented frieze and four turned and tapering legs with leaf carved gilded capitals and gilded paw feet. M.1-2025 1 accession number M.1-2025 318060 priref 318060 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/318060 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/318060 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Bought with the Elliott Fund, 2025 reference agent-210363 adlib-agent-210363 974467fe-d290-3ec4-8344-879df8827980 Harry Apter reference agent-210364 adlib-agent-210364 2f0fcf08-1be1-3c19-9eaf-cf39a6e76ea7 Elliott Fund 2025 2025 2025 bought 1820 1820 c. 1820 reference agent-206768 adlib-agent-206768 f207f49e-0f4c-3d25-8cbe-bf9d32f76fd3 Chinese School reference term-106853 adlib-term-106853 25492eb4-1164-35eb-8dce-3601486f3415 19th Century reference term-13866 adlib-term-13866 37290dc1-64d7-3637-aae1-d92e608ca237 Qing Dynasty reference term-128516 adlib-term-128516 a7e60cca-458e-39da-9d9f-07698e4158eb literal China China country Guangzhou reference term-106692 adlib-term-106692 ed7baa11-5901-3307-81b6-77370e40ebb4 wood reference term-28681 adlib-term-28681 c1f659e2-1209-31cf-8ff4-154e11452559 gilding reference term-31499 adlib-term-31499 32bb5d6c-9a2c-3e8f-b998-5f9468b062b8 lacquer Depth cm 32 Height cm 130 Width cm 58 reference term-72146 adlib-term-72146 2b3231ba-b720-31b2-98f0-b82166f8f840 cabinet on stand history note Acquired by Captain Richard Alsager (1781-1841), of the East India Company in China before 1823; Captain Richard (1781-1841) and Mrs Elizabeth Alsager (née Lloyd, 1798-1862), Surrey; by descent to Charlotte Lloyd (1805-c.1880) and Rev. Canon John Manuel Echalaz (1801-1877); their daughter, Ellen Harriet Echalaz (1846-?) and Captain George Woronzow Allen (1842-1915); their children, each inheriting one cabinet, Herbert Warner Allen (1881-1968) and Rev. Lancelot John Allen (1885-?); separately inherited by their children, George Woronzow Warner Allen (1842-1915) and Bruce Allen; the cabinets reunited through inheritance by Ben Allen, son of Bruce Allen; sold, Harry Apter, from whom purchased, 2025 1 reference object-318061 adlib-object-318061 ef0e290b-3439-3bd8-8d6e-031a584a02b3 1 reference 1 term-72146 adlib-term-72146 2b3231ba-b720-31b2-98f0-b82166f8f840 cabinet on stand cabinet on stand reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-147625 adlib-term-147625 2914c5fd-f9db-331c-b324-afa3257924e0 Chinese export art reference term-72146 adlib-term-72146 2b3231ba-b720-31b2-98f0-b82166f8f840 cabinet on stand cabinet on stand object OBJECT