William and Mary Marquetry Chest of Drawers
1680 to 1690 England
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William and Mary Marquetry Chest of Drawers
A William and Mary walnut floral marquetry chest, circa 1690.
The rectangular ogee moulded top with central banded oval inlaid with spring flowers, birds and scrolls of acanthus, on
According to Herbert Cescinsky in ‘English Furniture of the 18th Century’, the general spacing of marquetry during the period 1690-1705 into panels probably owed its inception to the copying of the Jacobean carved panels of the period, directly before the accession of William III. He argues that “the work of Holland is decidedly inferior in
A similarly designed marquetry table top is illustrated in A.Bowetts, ‘English Furniture 1660-1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne’, p.61, plate 2:43, showing the variety created by transposing elements of the design so that no two quadrants of marquetry are identical.
A similar chest from Clevedon Court, Somerset is illustrated in R. Edwards, ‘ The Dictionary Of English Furniture’, Vol II’, p.34, dig 16.
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