Maker: Channon, John (Attributed to)
Mahogany chest of five drawers with serpentine front, canted corners and bracket feet. Two short and three long drawers. With ormolu mounts in the French taste, and side handles also of chased ormolu. The top is formed of mahogany veneer on deal, which has cracked in several places.
Bequeathed by Louis C. G. Clarke, 1960.
Depth: 61.4 cm
Height: 87.4 cm
Width: 128.8 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Mid 18th Century
George II
Circa
1755
-
Circa
1760
Mounts
composed of
ormolu
Carcase
composed of
mahogany
Ormulu
Accession number: M.27-1961
Primary reference Number: 95849
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Chest of drawers" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/95849 Accessed: 2023-06-04 12:56:35
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Accession Number: M.10-1975
Accession Number: C.409-1928
Accession Number: C.407-1928
Accession Number: C.1919 & A-G-1928
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