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Cabinet
The manufacture attributed to Jackson & Graham
(1836-85)
Macassar ebony, amboyna, boxwood, palm, partridgewood and purpleheart, with ivory inlay
43 1/2 in (110.5 cms x 31 1/2 in (80 cms) x 21 in (53.3 cms)
English (London), circa 1865
PROVENANCE:
George and Celia Baird, Stickhill Mansion, Kelso
MARKED:
‘CGB’ (on the front and back panels, see detail below) and ‘CHUBB / PATENT/ CHUBBS / MAKER TO / HER MAJESTY / LONDON/ 516987’ (on the lock).
The present cabinet belongs to a distinctive group of furniture, some pieces from which are stamped Jackson & Graham.
In particular, a pair of upholstered stools (Sotheby’s, London, 5 May 1990, lot 127) and a writing table (with Blairman’s, 1985).
Unmarked pieces from the group, all of which are veneered with macassar ebony and other exotic woods, and inlaid with ivory, include an oval breakfast table (with Blairman’s, 1986) and a pembroke table (Sotheby’s, Sussex, 19 October 1993, lot 206).
There are also three glass-fronted side cabinets, including one in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and another in the Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford (see Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art The Handley Read Collection, exn cat., London, 1972, C13).
Where noted, all surviving Jackson & Graham furniture has, when appropriate, Chubb locks. The number on the lock of the present cabinet indicates a date around 1865).
Although Jackson & Graham manufactured furniture by many designers, including Owen Jones (1809-74), Alfred Lormier and Eugène Prignot, it is not possible to attribute the group under discussion.
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