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Cabinet

1650-1700 (made)
Place of origin
England (made)

Cabinet of oak painted with floral and other designs; in front are doors enclosing seven drawers and a central cupbaord; the pedimented top, which is detached, is fitted with a small central drawer. The whole of the outside and the cupboard doors are painted with flowers, fruit and birds on black ground. The drawers are painted with conventional designs in yellow and fitted with brass drop handles. Partly repainted.


Object details

Category
Furniture
Object type
Cabinet
Parts
This object consists of 14 parts.
(Some alternative part names are also shown below)
  • Cabinet
  • Drawer
  • Drawer
  • Drawer
  • Drawer
  • Top Section (Roof) to Cabinet
  • Drawer
  • Secret Drawer
  • Drawer
  • Drawer
  • Drawer
  • Drawer
  • Dustboard
  • Secret Drawer
  • Drawer
  • Drawer
Materials and techniques
Oak, brass.
Oak
Paint
Brass
Painting
Cabinet Making
Brief description
Painted cabinet, English, 17th century.
Physical description
Cabinet of oak painted with floral and other designs; in front are doors enclosing seven drawers and a central cupbaord; the pedimented top, which is detached, is fitted with a small central drawer. The whole of the outside and the cupboard doors are painted with flowers, fruit and birds on black ground. The drawers are painted with conventional designs in yellow and fitted with brass drop handles. Partly repainted.
Dimensions
  • Height: 72.2cm
  • Width: 58.5cm
  • Depth: 29.7cm
taken from object 2019.
Gallery label
CABINET Oak with painted decoration. English; mid 17th century. The painted decoration shows strong Dutch influence. (1968)
Object history
17th century painted oak cabinet, purchased for £22 from C H F Kinderman, 5 Arlington Street, St James' London SW1. Condition: "Partly repainted: the interior of some of the drawers is renewed" (R.Ps 19/3645).

See bound off-print in Woodwork Library of paper (W.A.Thorpe) in the Transactions of the Radnorshire Society Vol.XXIV 1954, pp 40-54.

Previously on long-term loan to Tamworth Castle from May 1983 - Feb 2006 (RP 94/2082).
Historical context
Comparable Objects:
- Cabinet on stand, made of eucalyptus, tropical hardwood, oak, walnut and painted, 1620, V&A object number W.9-1936.
- Cabinet, with mother-of-pearl inlay, and painted decoration, 1620, V&A object number W.37-1927.
Bibliographic references
  • Cabinet, painted with floral and other designs on black; in front are doors enclosing seven drawers and a centre cupboard; the pedimented top, which is detached, is fitted with a drawer. The whole of the outside and the cupboard door are painted with flowers, fruit, and birds; the drawers are painted with conventional designs in yellow and fitted with brass drop handles. Partly repainted. Mid-17th century From catalogue H. 1 ft. 4 ½ in., W. 1 ft. 11 in., D. 1 ft. (H. 41.9 cm, W. 58.4 cm, D. 30.5 cm) From: H. Clifford Smith, Catalogue of English Furniture & Woodwork (London 1930), 595, Plate 26
  • CHINNERY, Victor: 'Oak Furniture - The British Tradition. : a history of early furniture in the British Isles and New England', (Antique Collectors’s Club, Woodbridge, Reprinted 1988 ©1979), p. 211.
Collection
Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number
W.32:1 to 14-1919

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Record createdJuly 13, 2007
Record URL
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