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- A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SECRETAIRE CABINET
A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SECRETAIRE CABINET
A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SECRETAIRE CABINET
England, circa 1710
An early eighteenth century Queen Anne walnut secretaire cabinet probably by John Coxed, the moulded cornice above a pair of feather banded cupboard doors enclosing a combination of ten drawers, the bottom section with brushing slide above a fitted secretaire drawer with hinged writing surface over three long drawers, all supported on bracket feet.
Height 183.00cm
Width 111.00cm
Depth 52.00cm
Two comparable secretaire cabinets on chests are illustrated in Adam Bowett’s English Furniture 1660 - 1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne, pp 224-226. As with the the above they are made in circa 1710. However, we known John Coxed was the cabinet maker responsible for making the two related pieces since both bear his firm’s historic trade label. Two further models worthy of note appear in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, figs. 237 and 250 pp. 154 & 161. The first one features therein also enclosed a Coxed label, whilst the second in fact has a Coxed and Woster trade label, suggesting that it is of a slightly later date circa 1720. Interestingly, the upper section of three of these referenced cabinets enclose a similar configuration of drawers to that inside this cabinet.
Adam Bowett & Laurie Lindey, Literature: Furniture History, The Journal of The Furniture History Society, Vol. XXXIX, 2013 ‘Labelled furniture from the White Swan workshop’, pp 71-98.
Adam Bowett, English Furniture 1660 - 1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne, pp 224-226
Adam Bowett, Early Georgian Furniture 1715-1740, Woodbridge, 2009, pp.138-139, pl.3:82 and 3:83.
R. Edwards & M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, p.91-92
Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, pp.156-157, figs. 241 and 242.
England, circa 1710
An early eighteenth century Queen Anne walnut secretaire cabinet probably by John Coxed, the moulded cornice above a pair of feather banded cupboard doors enclosing a combination of ten drawers, the bottom section with brushing slide above a fitted secretaire drawer with hinged writing surface over three long drawers, all supported on bracket feet.
Height 183.00cm
Width 111.00cm
Depth 52.00cm
Two comparable secretaire cabinets on chests are illustrated in Adam Bowett’s English Furniture 1660 - 1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne, pp 224-226. As with the the above they are made in circa 1710. However, we known John Coxed was the cabinet maker responsible for making the two related pieces since both bear his firm’s historic trade label. Two further models worthy of note appear in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, figs. 237 and 250 pp. 154 & 161. The first one features therein also enclosed a Coxed label, whilst the second in fact has a Coxed and Woster trade label, suggesting that it is of a slightly later date circa 1720. Interestingly, the upper section of three of these referenced cabinets enclose a similar configuration of drawers to that inside this cabinet.
Adam Bowett & Laurie Lindey, Literature: Furniture History, The Journal of The Furniture History Society, Vol. XXXIX, 2013 ‘Labelled furniture from the White Swan workshop’, pp 71-98.
Adam Bowett, English Furniture 1660 - 1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne, pp 224-226
Adam Bowett, Early Georgian Furniture 1715-1740, Woodbridge, 2009, pp.138-139, pl.3:82 and 3:83.
R. Edwards & M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, p.91-92
Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, pp.156-157, figs. 241 and 242.