IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 95849 accession number: M.27-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 10 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: chest of drawers LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Louis C. G. Clarke, 1960. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/95849 TECHNIQUES ---------- veneering CATEGORIES ------ category: furniture DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Channon, John DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 70 dimension: Height units: cm value: 89.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 111.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: John Channon and Brass Inlaid Furniture 1730-1760 CITATIONS -------- Chippendale Furniture. The Work of Thomas Chippendale and his Contemporaries in the Rococo Taste, Vile, Cobb, Langlois, Channon, Hallett, Ince and Mayhew, Lock, Johnson, and others circa 1745-1765 Dictionary of English Furniture Furniture at Temple Newsam and Lotherton Hall: Vol I John Channon and Brass Inlaid Furniture 1730-1760 The Collection of Mr. And Mrs. Saul P. Steinberg ---