{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":50736,"auction_id":102,"set_id":134,"lot_number":"14","artist":"Arnedo Cabinet","title":"The Arnedo Cabinet","starting_price":500000,"signed_dated":null,"medium":"Narra, Tindalo, Carabao Bone & Silver","size":"76” x 52 1/2” x 21 1/2” (193 cm x 133 cm x 55 cm)","property":"Property from the Tony and Cez Gutierrez collection","coa":null,"provenance":"Gapan, when it was still part of Pampanga","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"A cabinet or aparador was rarely found in Filipino homes during the first two centuries of colonial rule, when clothes were  usually stored in a baul, chest, or in a rattan tampipi which was invariably made in Camarines.  Only at the start of the 19th  Century when the hacienda economy began to emerge and prosperity came, did bedroom furniture like chests of drawers,  commodes and cabinets begin to appear.  The Sioco family, the wealthiest family in 19th-Century Apalit and among the most landed families in Pampanga, had three daughters.  Being rich heiresses and much sought after, they eventually married the progenitors of the Arnedo, Escaler and  Gonzalez families of Pampanga.  This 2-door cabinet belonged to the Arnedo branch that cares for the Apo Iro, the ivory patron saint of Apalit that is borne on a pagoda in a fluvial procession on the feastday of St. Peter, the Apostle. It was made by a Chinese craftsman in Gapan, then a part of Pampanga, but is now in Nueva Ecija. Active during the 1820s and 30s he was the only known craftsman in the country who inlaid furniture and doors using carabao bone that was cut in naturalistic shapes.  The Chinese influence is evident in the short cabriole legs that remind one of Ming furniture.  This cabinet consists of three parts: a balayong or tindalo base standing on four short cabriole legs with a multi-lobed apron reminiscent of 18th Century Chinese furniture; a narra frame with a pair of drawers at the bottom, side and door panels; and a detachable, simple molded cornice surmounting the ensemble.  The drawer and door frames, as well as the narrow frieze of the cornice, are inlaid with a row of carabao-bone discs with  kamagong centers.  The drawers are outlined with an inlaid strip of lanite enclosing a horizontal lozenge with multi-lobed ends. The drawer pulls and keyhole-shields are of silver.  The door panels are carved with large vertical lozenges of the same shape as that of the drawers and outlined in lanite wood. The center of each panel is inlaid with an 8-rayed sunburst, each ray half in bone and the other half in  kamagong. An oval wreath with diamond-shaped leaves surrounds the sunburst and is decorated above and below  with a realistically-cut floral and foliar bouquet inlaid in carabao bone.  This is probably the only example of its kind in the country and is unique.","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":11500000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":11500000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":13432000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":51701,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/102/134/lot/14.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":51702,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/102/134/lot/14a.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":51700,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/102/134/lot/14b.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":13,"next":15,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}