拍品专文
The cypher on the handle is that of 'J. A. Y.' for the Reverend John Augustus Yatman, of Winscombe, brother of Herbert George Yatman of Haslemere. The latter commissioned William Burges to design a superb painted cabinet which has since become known as 'The Yatman Cabinet' (now in the Victoria & Albert Museum) in 1858. In the same year, the Reverend J. A. Yatman got married, and Burges' gifted the couple an entire painted bedroom filled with furniture, consisting of a side table, an half-tester bed, two wardrobes and the present lot. The room has since been overpainted but a side table, bed, two wardrobes and the present dressing mirror survive (J. Mordaunt Crook, loc. cit.).