Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 107
large centre key-plate of fantasticshape profusely but sketchily engraved, triangularcorner-pieces, and six or eight hinge-plates on eachside. Their two folding doors reveal, when opened,lacquered drawers of various sizes; and they aremounted, as a rule, though not at Windsor, on 248 THE MAGAZINE… … ORIENTAL LACQUER SIDEBOARD, WITH ORMOULU MOUNTS, PROBABLY BY RIESENER, ANDCISTERN MOUNTED BY CAFFIERI. (See p. 250.) The Dutch were probably the first importers ofthese, and Louis XIV is said to have been presentedwith many of them by the embassy from the Kingof Siam, which created such a stir at…
