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Doorcase for the Great Drawing Room of Norfolk House, Saint James's Square, London

Unknown Artist

Known as the "monkey" doors, this doorway and its companion in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, were designed by the Piedmontese architect Giovanni Battista Borra (1712–ca. 1786) and executed by the London carver John Cuenot (d. 1762) for the Great Drawing Room of Norfolk House, Saint James's Square, London, which was built for the ninth Duke of Norfolk between 1748 and 1752.

Credit: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964

c. 1755
Mahogany and pine (carved, originally painted and gilded)
378.5 x 148.6in
64.101.1212
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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