Stock No: 14461

A small Japanese style 19th century ebonised and gilt wood sideboard with Thuya veneered panels and top. The central pull down door with a delicately carved and gilded Japanese scene of a stylised landscape of trees and birds within a Thuya wood frame, is flanked by two sets of three Thuya fronted drawers, with original brass handles and two long drawers above. In the lower half of the cabinet are a further pair of doors decorated with Japanese style foliage and birds also with original locks and brass handles.

Stamped on the top of one of the drawers, Gillow & Co 12296.

English, circa 1870.

Note, this piece is illustrated in, Wood in British Furniture-Making, by Adam Bowett, page 312, plate T4. Published by oblong creative in association with the royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2012.

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