A VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND EMBOSSED LEATHER INSET AMARANTH, BURR AMBOYNA AND MARQUETRY SIDE CABINET

The present lot may be compared to a 'Cabinet in Louis XVI style' by Jackson and Graham shown at the 1862 London Exhibition (J.B. Waring, Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture 1862, pl. 111.). Modelled after known works from what was described as the 'best period Louis Seize', both cabinets illustrate the firm's innovative designs with similar top fluted baluster pilasters terminating in spiralled gadrooning, as reproduced here.
Active between 1836 and 1885 the firm Jackson and Graham was eminent among Victorian decorators and cabinetmakers. Established by Thomas Charles Jackson and Peter Graham the firm grew to occupy substantial premises in London's Oxford Street with a range of fabricating departments from cabinet-making, including carving, gilding and upholstery to interior decoration and bespoke furniture commissions. Their clients included Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, the Grand Khedive at Cairo, and the Royal Palace in Siam.