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Music Cabinet

Designer (British, 1863 - 1942)
Maker (British, 1888 - 1909)
ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Dateca. 1895
Mediumoak, stained green with well patinated wrought iron mounts backed by red Morocco leather
Dimensions66 1/2 x 27 x 19 1/2 in. (168.9 x 68.6 x 49.5 cm.)
InscribedStamped on all five drawers: THE GUILD OF HANDICRAFT LTD./ ESSEX HOUSE/ BOW E.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Adele S. Browning Memorial Art Fund, the Frances Crandall Dyke Bequest, and the Schweppe Art Acquisitions Fund
Status
On view
Object number2006.11
Photography © 2015 Fredrik Nilsen
Charles Robert Ashbee
1904
Object number: 2007.4
Small Upright Writing Cabinet
Pierre Roussel
1760-1770
Object number: 27.101
Filing Cabinet
Etienne Doirat
1720-1732
Object number: 11.47
Mechanical Writing Table
Jean-François Oeben
1755-1765
Object number: 27.185
Writing Desk
Charles Cressent
1723-1730
Object number: 27.18
Writing Desk
André-Charles Boulle the elder
1700-1705, with later alterations
Object number: 25.12
Writing Table
Bernard Molitor
ca.1788-1796
Object number: 16.12
Writing table
Joseph Baumhauer
ca. 1765 with mid 19th Century alterations
Object number: 27.137
Photography © 2015 Fredrik Nilsen
Adam Weisweiler
1785
Object number: 27.21
Small Fall-Front Desk
Adrien Faizelot Delorme
1750-1760
Object number: 78.20.64
Fall-Front Desk
Pierre Roussel
ca. 1760
Object number: 78.20.63
Fall-front Secretary
Bernard Molitor
secretary: 1812-1816; plaques: center:1783, left:1774, right:1777
Object number: 27.22