Beschreibung:

The rising top with strapwork marquetry revealing an embroidered raised work panel worked with appliqué metal purl, depicting a scene of King Herod being presented with the head of John the Baptist, by Salome above a fitted interior lined with pink silk within concave sides, the pair of doors with conforming strapwork enclosing a further pair of raised work and metal purl panels portraying Charles II and Catherine of Braganza, the interior with an arrangement of seven similarly worked drawer panels including mythological episodes from 'Narcissus and Echo' and 'The Rape of Europa', together with a group of figures possibly representing the four seasons all headed by a late 16th century armorial panel with the Haynes family arms with a small door panel below illustrating an Old Testament scene from the 'Finding of Moses', the door opening onto a mirror panels, columns and secret compartments, the finely textile panels incorporating cotton picot edged linen collars and gloves, a velvet glove and red beads and seed pearls together with embroidered coloured silk detailing including coral; leafy garlands of applied looped silk thread covered strips surrounded by similarly worked white flowers and applied metal devices featuring a crown and a staff, each panel with a cream satin ground, on a stand with one long drawer above later spiral-turned legs and waved stretchers with turned feet, 78cm wide, 44cm deep, 131cm high (30.5in wide, 17in deep, 51.5in high).