18th Century Lacquer Cabinet On Stand

Fine Antwerp 17th Century Painted Table Cabinet, Belgian, Circa 1650 An ebony and walnut banded table cabinet with Ripple moulds, the two doors open to reveal a fitted interior. The...

A German single door table cabinet. The front is inlaid with a Knight on horse back set within an oval and surrounded with a trophy of arms. The fitt...

A fine example of a late 17th century Spanish vargueno on stand. The early mahogany cabinet has the original iron mounts and the fall front opens to reveal a beautifully fitted inter...

A super example of a Spanish 17th century walnut and parcel gilt Papillero Vargueno on stand. The drawer fronts with bone inlays and columns with finely painted flowers. Central door...

Rectangular cabinet has nine drawers inside. Hinges, corner mounts and lock plates in gilt brass. Decorated with river landscapes, insects, birds and animals in pairs. The stand is i...

England, circa 1760. A fine mid-eighteenth century Japanned lacquer cabinet, with two doors revealing an interior fitted with eleven drawers with ring handles, all decorated with naturalistic scenes including fishermen and rural life. Retaining the original mid-eighteenth century stand, also with comparable chinoiserie decoration and X form stretcher with central pierced quatrefoil. Height 161.00 centimetres. Width 98.00 centimetres. Depth 51.00 centimetres. The art of 18th-century Japanning was a European practise that sought to imitate Japanese lacquerware and became a method of emulating the aesthetics of East Asia within the home. The term originates from the late 17th century as the opening of trade routes in the East triggered an interest in Chinese and Japanese fashions in Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands. It’s popularity reflected this era of imperial ambition when the West was fascinated by the exoticism of the East and saw the rise of an orientalist attitude. During this time, Europe’s demand for lacquerware began to grow and The East India Company's importation of lacquered objects and screens created a desire for larger, more practical items with similar decorative finishes. To replicate the appearance of oriental lacquerwork, European cabinet-makers turned to John Stalker and George Parker's 1688 ‘A Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing: Being a Compleat Discovery of Those Arts’. This book contained formulas for creating and applying lacquers as well as various chinoiserie illustrations for readers to copy and modify, having made a concerted effort to reference designs on Chinese porcelain and textiles. European japanning differed from traditional East Asian lacquer work which used sap from the Toxicodendron vernicifluum tree (also known as the Chinese lacquer tree...

A George II Lacquer Cabinet on Chest with double dome cornice and three ball finials, above two cabinet doors with robust banded hinges, opening to reveal an interior of ten drawers,...

Japanese lacquer cabinet on Regence Giltwood stand. The stand - Circa 1725 and the lacquer cabinet - late 17th/early 18th Century. Decorated overall with figures in a landscape and d...