Description: China Cabinet
Dimensions: 91 1/2" High x 67" Wide
Notes: Chippendale mahogany china cabinet broken into two portions with break front and segmentally splayed sides. The upper portion is horizontally divided in the center into four compartments with fretwork galleries pierced in a Chinese diaper pattern and the sides are divided into three compartments with pierced crestings of a trefoiled design. The sides are paneled with fretwork pierced in designs of geometrical interlacements and are surmounted and connected with the central division by carved and crocketed C scroll brackets, the spandrels of which are filled with fretwork pierced in a design of geometrical interlacements. The center is finished with a deep dentelled and acanthus carved frieze which carries at the angles and in the center carved pedestals flanked by fretwork bracketings and terminating in carved Chinese umbrella leaf finials. At the back is a curved pediment outlined by molded and crocketed scrollings and with its spandrel occupied by a fretwork panel pierced in a Chinese design. The sides of the projecting center portion are filled with fretwork panels pierced in a design of geometrical interlacements. The lower portion is supported by pilasters with capitals carved in acanthus leaf medallions, shafts having pierced and carved panels and bases carved with bold acanthus leaf scrollings. The sides are horizontally divided into three compartments by two shelves having trefoiled crestings and back with fretwork panels, while the center compartment is arched with reversed C scrolls, fretwork panels, and carved waterfall drip ornamentation in the center. Below this are arched stretchers of carved and reversed C scrolls converging in a square stretcher shelf with a scalloped apron and shaped fretwork gallery.
Item created by: nmwhite997 on 2016-07-27 06:45:02. Last edited by nmwhite997 on 2016-07-27 09:50:57
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