A Chinese Red Lacquer Cabinet
20th Century
the doors opening to an interior with median self with two drawers.
Height 67 3/4 x width 47 x depth 20 1/2 inches.
Property from Strawberry Hill: The Collection of Ada and Barrie Regan, Hillsborough, California
This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance

In 1912, Joseph D. Grant, the financier and San Francisco civic leader, commissioned architect Lewis Hobart to design and build "Villa Rose" on the San Francisco peninsula. The 40-acre parcel in Hillsborough, California remains as one of the original, historic Gilded Age estates with lush gardens surrounded by wooded parkland. When Charles R. Blyth and his wife purchased the estate in 1936, they renamed it "Strawberry Hill," a reference to the home's pleasing pink color and a nod to Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival mansion in London.

When Ada and Barrie Regan purchased the residence, it was in a state of disrepair and required substantial attention to the interior and the gardens. Once restoration was complete, Ada and Barrie Regan filled the home with wonderful Continental furniture and decorative objects. Their appreciation for the home's architecture and history is evident in the collection they assembled, offered as lots 1 through 98 in this auction and as another sequence of lots in our July 24, 2026 Interiors auction.

In overall good, stable, ready to place condition. Old scuffs, marks and scratches throughout consistent with age and use. A few scattered areas of restoration to red lacquer with paint along edges of doors and case surrounding doors. The back with a hole drilled into boards for feeding electrical wiring through cabinet. The proper left door with a small area of loss to lacquer in top corner. Additional images available upon request.