A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED, PIETRA DURA AND EBONISED CABINETS, each with a rectangular verde antico marble top, above an egg-and-dart moulding, the frieze with an acanthus and flower stem cast mount, the door with eight pietra dura inlaid slate panels of birds and flanked to each side by a bearded herm figure with twin dolphin and acanthus-cast foot, the sides each centred by ribbon-tied trophies, on arched plinth base centred with a grotesque mask and flanked to each side by lion trophies (slight differences in size; the larger with five repaired pietra dura panels, the marble top repaired, egg-and-dart moulding to left hand side broken; the smaller with one cracked pietra dura panel), 19th century

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED, PIETRA DURA AND EBONISED CABINETS, each with a rectangular verde antico marble top, above an egg-and-dart moulding, the frieze with an acanthus and flower stem cast mount, the door with eight pietra dura inlaid slate panels of birds and flanked to each side by a bearded herm figure with twin dolphin and acanthus-cast foot, the sides each centred by ribbon-tied trophies, on arched plinth base centred with a grotesque mask and flanked to each side by lion trophies (slight differences in size; the larger with five repaired pietra dura panels, the marble top repaired, egg-and-dart moulding to left hand side broken; the smaller with one cracked pietra dura panel), 19th century
44¾in. (113.5cm.) wide; 58¾in. (149cm.) high; 19¾in. (50.2cm.) deep
44in. (112cm.) wide; 59 1/8in. (150.2cm.) high; 19¾in. (50.2cm.) deep (2)

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