A Napoleon III ormolu-mounted thuya, walnut, tulipwood and porcelain-mounted cabinet-on-stand
By Charles-Guillaume Diehl, Paris, Circa 1865
The architectural pediment above a door inset with an oval porcelain panel depicting two young women in a landscape, the lock-plate engraved DIEHL/PARIS/19 r. Michel-le-Comte, opening to reveal a fitted interior, with four drawers to the left and six smaller drawers to the right, each lined with blue silk, the lower section with a blue silk-lined drawer centred by a shell motif and flanked to each side by a pierced boss, on square tapering legs joined by an 'X'-shaped stretcher centred by a ring-handled flaming urn, on tapering feet
20 in. (51 cm.) wide; 54 in. (137 cm.) high; 16¼ in. (41.2 cm.) deep
A Napoleon III ormolu-mounted thuya, walnut, tulipwood and porcelain-mounted cabinet-on-stand
By Charles-Guillaume Diehl, Paris, Circa 1865
The architectural pediment above a door inset with an oval porcelain panel depicting two young women in a landscape, the lock-plate engraved DIEHL/PARIS/19 r. Michel-le-Comte, opening to reveal a fitted interior, with four drawers to the left and six smaller drawers to the right, each lined with blue silk, the lower section with a blue silk-lined drawer centred by a shell motif and flanked to each side by a pierced boss, on square tapering legs joined by an 'X'-shaped stretcher centred by a ring-handled flaming urn, on tapering feet
20 in. (51 cm.) wide; 54 in. (137 cm.) high; 16¼ in. (41.2 cm.) deep