Side Cabinet

The design attributed to Charles Bevan
(fl. circa 1860-82)
The manufacture attributed to Marsh & Jones
(partnership 1864-70)

Satinwood, inlaid with harewood, purpleheart, ebony and boxwood; giltwood mouldings and mirror glass
54 in (137.2 cm) x 54 in (137.2 cm) x 15 in (38.1 cm)
English (probably Leeds), circa 1865

The design of this cabinet can be confidently attributed to Charles Bevan and the manufacture to Marsh & Jones. The design has many features in common with two, somewhat grander cabinets designed by Bevan and supplied by Marsh & Jones to Titus Salt, around 1865-70. The first, with a tall, arched mirror above, is at Lotherton Hall; see Christopher Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, III, Leeds, 1998, no. 685. The second, with a low back, is in the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum; see Mary Ann Steiner (ed.), The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of the Collection, Saint Louis, 1991, p. 118.

Other related cabinets include a satinwood two-door cabinet in an English private collection and another, in walnut, in an American private collection; see H. Blairman & Sons, Furniture and Works of Art (2005), no. 9. A cabinet, identical to the present example, is in an English private collection.

For more on Charles Bevan see H. Blairman & Sons, Gothic-Revival Furniture by Charles Bevan, London, n.d. [2006].