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A Dutch Oyster-Veneered Walnut, Ivory, Ebony and marquetry cabinet-on-stand, the rectangular moulded cornice above a pair of doors inlaid with geometric patterns of stars and circles and seaweed marquetry within chequer-banding, enclosing three shelves and inlaid with a star to the reverse of the doors, the lower section with further oyster-veneered and chequer banding above three frieze drawers flanked by marquetry panels, on ring-turned faceted tapering legs joined by a stretcher and on bun feet, restorations, adapted. H.211 W.175 D.56cm The parquetry pattern on the doors of this cabinet relates to a late 17th century cabinet in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (J.van Herck, Il Mobile Fiammingo, Milan, 1972, p.93, fig 99), and although lacking the seaweed marquetry, shares much in common with a cabinet from the collection of Peter Morris, Esq., Yester House, sold Sotheby's London, 14th December 1973, lot 162.Provenance: Christie's, 30th October, 1997
A cricket bat bearing autographs collected by Alex Coxon of Yorkshire and England in 1947 and comprising the signatures of the England and South Africa Test teams and all seventeen first-class counties,a Fred Clough Senior-Counties bat, signatures in ink to the face and to the reverse, a total of 224 players have signed the bat, mounted in a custom-made glass panelled display cabinet, the bat mounted on a spindle with a handle that can rotate that bat inside the case so either side can be viewed, the case set with a plaque inscribed TO DENNIS DRISCOLL, WITH EVERY GOOD WISH, FROM ALEX COXON, SCARBOROUGH FESTIVAL 1947, 96 by 23 by 18cm., most signatures in good, legible condition, scuffs and scratches to display case varnishingThe 1947 English cricket season is known as the 'golden summer' when Middlesex CCC's Denis Compton & Bill Edrich established county batting records that are unlikely to ever be surpassed.
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