Walnut side cabinet, central upper display cabinet enclosed by two astragal glazed doors, ring turned supports, rectangular moulded top with dentil frieze over cupboard enclosed by geometric panelled doors and open shelves, plinth base, the cupboard door stamped "Collinson & Lock London' '7019'
Dimensions:
Height: 173cm Length/Width: 140cm Depth/Diam…
Detail of painted door on cabinet shows remarkable similarites with the preparatory drawing by Fairfax Murray dated 1875 (sold Christies May 2016)
A corner cabinet is being sold by Cheffins Auctions that has close similarities with the Collinson and Lock cabinet shown at the Philadelphia International exhibtion in 1876. The painted panels have the initials of Charles Fairfax Murray
A late Victorian mahogany display cabinet, stamped COLLINSON & LOCK LONDON 5109, dentil cornice above a marquetry capital and a pair of glazed doors enclosing a shelf, the lower half with a pair of geometrically moulded panel doors, reeded apron, open undertier, square legs, 173.5cm high, 67cm wide, 33.5cm deep
Mahogany Cabinet, having shelf and satinwood door panels with fitted slide out interior drawers, signed on door with number 6145, height 51 inches, top 15 1/2″ x 22″
Nadeau Auctions Windsor CT February 2022
A Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library and Philadelphia Museum of Art Conference
April 26–28, 2022:
The paper will be on the topic of Collinson and Lock's marquetry work.
Synopis to follow
Recently published a chapter and introduction to Bloomsbury Cultural History of Color
Color in aretefacts
In the eighteenth century, domestic space was fashioned, inhabited, structured and performed through the concepts ofhabitus and figuration. The furniture and furnishings that were bought and used expressed habitus or the unarticulated but experienced symbols of life. The figuration…
Recenty published a chapter in Cultural History of Home for Bloomsbury 2021
Chapter on Furniture 1650-1800
In the eighteenth century, domestic space was fashioned, inhabited, structured and performed through the concepts of habitus and figuration. The furniture and furnishings that were bought and used expressed habitus or the unarticulated but experienced symbols of life. The fig…