Lot Details
Lot 362
Queen Anne Double-Dome Red-Japanned and Parcel-Gilt Cabinet on Chest
Circa 1715
In two parts, the upper section with double-dome cresting and urn-form finials above two doors enclosing an arrangement of ten shallow and deep drawers, the lower section fitted with a secretaire drawer over three graduated long drawers, raised on ball feet; backboard of cresting with impressed initials C M, tops of doors with impressed initials V V, interior drawer with penciled inscription: PAUL LUMÉN./H: fors./Finland/1928. Height 7 feet 3 inches (221 cm), width 40 1/2 inches (102.9 cm), depth 20 1/2 inches (52 cm).
A Queen Anne red-japanned and parcel-gilt bureau cabinet was sold, Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 2001, lot 469, that had a drawer back with the inked signature Daniel Massey,
several other drawers with the initials DM and W, the backboards of both sections with the initals DM and RF. Intriguingly, a japanner and cabinet-maker Abraham Massey (or Massay), at 'The Two White Posts', Great Queen Street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, is listed in The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Beard and Gilbert, Leeds: W.S. Maney and Son, 1986, p. 585. His obituary in the General Advertiser, on January 18, 1746 read: 'A few days ago died, at his House in Great Queen Street, Mr. Abraham Massay, said to be the most eminent Japanner in England'. Whether this is possibly the father of son of Daniel Massey, still remains to be determined. Additionally, there is the possibility that the initials CM on the present cabinet could be those of a member of the same family of japanners.
C Property of a Park Avenue Lady
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