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97/194/1 Secretaire cabinet with work box, wood/ leather/ fabric, [made by HM Gill}, New Zealand, c.1880
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Production Notes include information about the design, manufacture and marketing of an object. Production notes
possibly designed by the cabinet-maker HM Gill

Attributed to HM Gill on the basis of inscription on exposed carcase of interior of lower left hand cupboard.
Possibly made as an exhibition piece.

Date of about 1880 based on stylistic grounds.
History Notes include facts about what has happened to an object since manufacture. This could include who owned it and how it was used (provenance). It may also describe any cultural meanings with which it may have become associated. History notes
Pencil inscription in lower left drawer refers to a Miss M Matison, possibly the original owner.
Acquired by the donor's partner, Martyn Cook, from the estate of Justice Lydiard Wood, Springfield House, Adelaide, November 1991.

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Description
Secretaire cabinet with work box, wood, leather, fabric, [made by HM Gill}, New Zealand, c.1880. Breakfront secretaire cabinet veneered in New Zealand timbers, the upper stage surmounted by a pediment deeply carved with vase and flowers above a central door between two mirrored compartments flanked by units of three small drawers, each with carved foliate cresting to the top shelf; the lower breakfront stage with carved and moulded edge above a central unit consisting of an adjustable tooled green leather writing slide flanked by compartments above a retractable, fitted, velvet-lined sarcophagos work box on a squat, carved and moulded pedestal base and flanked by two panelled doors; the whole resting on a solid plinth base.

Made: unknown; 1855 - 1905
Marks
Bears two pencil inscriptions: 'Matison NZ cedar (Miss M Matison)' (lower left drawer); 'Cabinetmaker Mr HM Gill' (lower left cupboard carcase).
The Registration Number of an object is a unique identifying number applied by the museum at the point of acquisition. Current numbering format comprises the year of acquisition, followed by a sequential number. For example, '2007/45' is the Registration Number that represents the 45th acquisition in the year 2007. Registration number
97/194/1
Production date
1855 - 1905

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Acquisition credit line
Gift of Thomas Hamel
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