ATTRIBUÉ AU FABRICANT ROYAL GERRIT JENSEN (1667-1715) EXCEPTIONAL... Lot 101

ATTRIBUÉ AU FABRICANT ROYAL GERRIT JENSEN (1667-1715) EXCEPTIONAL CABINET England, William & Mary period (1700/1725) for the "seaweed" cabinet England, Regency period, around 1830 for the base Oak frame, mahogany and rosewood veneer, pietra dura, pietra paesina, gilt bronze, gilded and blackened wood H. 176 cm, W. 140 cm, D. 49.6 cm Cabinet: H. 98.6 cm, W. 139.4 cm, D. 46.9 cm Leg: H. 79 cm, W. 145 cm, D. 51.2 cm Some missing parts Gerrit Jensen (active from 1680 to 1715) was of German or Flemish origin. He was the only cabinet maker working in England during this period. He invented the seaweed inlaid decor, and was influenced by Pierre Gole, André-Charles Boulle and Daniel Marot. This imposing and rare cabinet with an oak frame has a very rich seaweed marquetry on its front and sides. It opens with ten drawers on four rows of fronts and a door in the centre of the composition, revealing four drawers veneered with rosewood with an oyster shell motif. The central part of our cabinet presents a drawer surrounded by two animated consoles with foliage decoration. They are surmounted by two marble pilasters with Corinthian capitals framing the central door, adorned with hard stone marquetry and paesine symbolizing a landscape, in a molded blackened wood reserve. The columns support an entablature decorated with hard stone marquetry with four-lobed rosettes. The upper central drawer is adorned with a semi-circular reserve inlaid with hard stones and paesine, and an applied decoration of floral vases and angel heads in gilded bronze. The eight other drawers are distributed around this central part and each one has two molded blackened wood reserves containing marquetry compositions of hard stones and paesine. The whole is surmounted by two large drawers with the seaweed motif and are adorned with hard stone marquetry depicting