THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A DUTCH EBONISED CABINET-ON-STAND
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A DUTCH EBONISED CABINET-ON-STAND
The overhanging stepped cornice above two short drawers decorated with putti among scrolling acanthus, above two doors with ripple-moulded squares with outset corners and centred by an octagon, one with Venus in her chariot, the other with Poseidon surrounded by Putti and further gods, enclosing twelve short panelled drawers with conforming engraving flanking a door with a ripple-moulded quatrefoil to the reverse with pewter-inlaid star-motif and enclosing a fruitwood marquetry interior of six small drawers flanking a recess, above two short frieze drawers with playing putti flanked by grotesque masks and shaped aprons, on herm-shaped legs joined by a flat stretcher and on gadrooned ball feet
67½in. (171cm.) wide; 75in. (190cm.) high; 22½in. (57cm.) deep
The overhanging stepped cornice above two short drawers decorated with putti among scrolling acanthus, above two doors with ripple-moulded squares with outset corners and centred by an octagon, one with Venus in her chariot, the other with Poseidon surrounded by Putti and further gods, enclosing twelve short panelled drawers with conforming engraving flanking a door with a ripple-moulded quatrefoil to the reverse with pewter-inlaid star-motif and enclosing a fruitwood marquetry interior of six small drawers flanking a recess, above two short frieze drawers with playing putti flanked by grotesque masks and shaped aprons, on herm-shaped legs joined by a flat stretcher and on gadrooned ball feet
67½in. (171cm.) wide; 75in. (190cm.) high; 22½in. (57cm.) deep