The moulded cornice above two marquetry panel doors, enclosing an arrangement of nine drawers, a centre cupboard also enclosing drawers, each inlaid with a floral arrangement, ‘birds and butterflies, on an urn’, supported with two cherubs, inlaid with mother-o-pearl and ebony, inside a cross banded border, the side panels with stylized griffins under the urns, all raised on a later Irish carved stand, with central scallop shell, issuing scrolling leaves and flowers, on cabriole legs, with ball and claw feet Provenance: Luggala, Co. Wicklow, 2006 Lot no. 306 For a discussion on marquetry inlay on Irish furniture, see the Knight of Glin, “The Marquetry Description of Early 18th Century Irish Furniture”, Irish Arts Review, vol. 13. The survival of this cabinet is significant. Illustrated in Sadleir and Dickenson’s Georgian Mansions in Ireland (1915) is a cabinet, now untraced, probably lost in the destruction of Desart Court, county Kilkenny (plate XLIV), it is described as ‘English and Dutch’. The doors are almost certainly by the same craftsman as the present lot. General Browne’s discovery of this piece and the Knight of Glin’s researches have ensured that an interesting facet of Irish craft has been recovered.