IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 98098 accession number: M.6-1957 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 3 September 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Upright veneered marquetry cabinet in the French style, of bombé form, with carved and splayed sides. Inside is a nest of drawers in the lower part, with shelves in the upper half, enclosed by two doors. One is inlaid with a parquetry of flower heads divided by a bands of light and dark mahogany. The other is inlaid with a pearwood shell and a floral garland on a satinwood ground, banded with kingwood. The sides have pendants of flowers tied by ribbons in a variety of woods on satinwood. The top is yew wood banded with kingwood. The top and sides are outlined with ormolu mouldings, and the doors with ormolu egg and dart framework with sprays of foliage. title: cabinet NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Earl of Tankerville, Chillingham Castle, Northumberland; sold Sotheby's 20 May 1955,Catalogue of Continental Porcelain, Fine French and English Furniture, Tapestries, Clocks, Oriental and European Clocks, lot 168; bought by C. Stall; sold to Messrs Hotspur, 14 Lowndes Street, Belgrave Square, London, SW1. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought with the S. G. Perceval Fund with a contribution from the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/98098 PEOPLE ------------------- Earl of Tankerville SUBJECTS ------------------- Chillingham Castle, Northumberland TECHNIQUES ---------- veneering CATEGORIES ------ category: furniture DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 48.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 140.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 107.6 CITATIONS -------- Annual Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate for 1957 The National Art Collections Fund Fifty-fourth Annual Report 1957 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_6_1957.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 507 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_6_1957.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_6_1957.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 507 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_6_1957.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/468/51/large_M_6_1957_200807_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1536 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/468/51/mid_M_6_1957_200807_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.6-1957_200807_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/468/51/preview_M_6_1957_200807_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/966/large_M_6_1957_200807_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 1522 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/966/mid_M_6_1957_200807_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 743 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/966/M_6_1957_200807_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 6000 pixels width: 4038 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/966/preview_M_6_1957_200807_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 371 pixels width: 250 pixels