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A Colonial Australian casuarina and cedar collector's…
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London
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14-Dec-2018
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A Colonial Australian casuarina and cedar collector's cabinet-on-stand, circa 1810-20, probably Sydney, with whale baleen stringing, the moulded rectangular top with a later pierced-brass three-quarter gallery above panelled doors enclosing fourteen graduated cedar-lined 'specimen' drawers with geometric internal divisions and silver pulls, the stand with five drawers with later brass ring handles, on square tapering legs joined by scrolled X-stretchers centred by a platform and with brass caps and anti-friction castors, with paper trade-bill to the underside 'From W.Mullins, Dealer in Antique Furniture, 52 & 54, High Street, Salisbury'. 158.5 cm high, 92 cm wide, 46 cm deep. Provenance: Probably acquired by John Taylor (d.1865) of Adelaide, South Australia, possibly at the International Exhibition london, 1862), and thence to his second wife Harriet Agnes (d.1902) and their son John Charles Marshall Taylor (d.1947), ultimately at Roke Manor, Hampshire. With W. Mullins, Salisbury. With Avon Antiques, Bradford-on-Avon, 1975.
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Furniture: Cabinets & Cupboards - Storage