Lucy Lloyd's cabinet

Lucy Lloyd's cabinet

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A sober nineteenth-century mahogany vitrine fronted by simple Gothic revival astragal glazed doors with pointed arches surmounting a drawer with brass drop handles on curvilinear backplates, terminating on bun feet.

display cabinet (belonging to Lucy Catherine Lloyd), LC Lloyd (her mahogany display cabinet), veneer (missing sections on its lower half)

Bought at auction by Pippa Skotnes and others pre-2004. The physical cabinet is not part of UCT's BC151 collection and is presently (2026) in Skotnes' possession. First featured in Pippa Skotnes, Gwen van Embden, and Fritha Langerman's book 'Curiosity CLXXV: A Paper Cabinet' (2004) and again in Skotnes' (editor) 'Claim to the Country' (2006: 383). See https://humanities.uct.ac.za/cca/projects/curiosity-clxxv