Ebonised Japanesque cabinet

A 19th century Aesthetic movement ebonised Japanesque cabinet was orginally housed in the Yorkshire home of a Mr Mossman, a wealthy Leeds wool merchant. When he moved from his house in Menston, near Ilkley, the cabinet passed into the hands of the new owner, the well-known music critic Ernest Bradbury and has passed by descent ever since.

The 4ft 4in (1.32m) wide cabinet, decorated with kingfishers, prunus blossom and water lilies, bore …

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