Attributed to John Linnell and from Castle Howard where a collection of his furniture can still be found. It was sold as part of a Sotheby's contents sale on the premises and bears the house inventory number – 862.

The upper part with a moulded over-hanging fluted cornice above a stiff lotus leaf carved and swagged drapery marquetry frieze and a pair of panel doors enclosing twenty four pigeon holes each inlaid with a number or letter, the lower pair with a concave drawer and a rectangular moulded edge top above a frieze drawer decorated with running guilloche and rosette decoration and a pair of doors centred by a large circular roundel, enclosing four slides lined with marbled paper, on a plinth base, the reverse with an inventory label for JAS. BOWMAN & SONS, MONK BAR, YORK and printed '10'.

Circa 1785

Height: 87 inch (221 cm)
Width: 40.5 inch (104 cm)
Depth: 30 inch (77 cm)

Working locks with keys.

Provenance:

Provenance: Castle Howard, Yorkshire.

Probably supplied to Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle

(1748-1825) and thence by descent to:

George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle

(1773-1848) and thence by
 descent to:

William George Howard, 8th Earl of Carlisle (1808-1889) and thence
 by descent to:

George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle (1843-1911) and thence by family descent until sold:
 Sotheby's contents sale, Castle Howard 11th-13th November 1991, lot 115 and 116.

This cabinet relates to a design by John Linnell in the collection of the V&A Museum and dated to around 1765 (E291 1929).

A related bookcase also in the collection of the V&A Museum is illusrated by H.Hayward and P.Kirkham,

William and John Linnell, London, 1980. fig.18.
Frederick, 5th Earl of Carlisle was patron of John Linnell between 1777-1789.

Register interest

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