Cabinet, wooden
Description
Large ornate wooden cabinet with glass doors that are framed by fluted columns with carved bulbs. There are detachable finials and pediments which adorn the top of the cabinet. The base is supported by fluted columns and is decorated with fielded panels of a different wood. There are three drawers at the front of the base, and two serpentine shaped drawer on either side, all made with mottled wood.
Object detail
Classification
Credit line
According
to
Ron
Lambert
the
cabinet
was
(most
likely)
sold
to
the
museum
by
Fred
Butler,
who
is
the
author/source
of
a
large
collection
of
archives,
manuscripts
and
photographs
in
the
Puke
Ariki
collection
(perhaps
most
notably
the
library
of
historical
scrapbooks).
Ron
asserts
that
Fred
Butler
maintained
that
the
cabinet
was
made
for
the
Christchurch
Exhibition
in
1906.
-
As
told
to
Julia
Hardie
20/01/2020
Accession number
A102.485
Collection type
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