A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD DISPLAY CABINET, attributable to Joseph-Emmanuel Zweiner, of serpentine outline, with an arch moulded top with a quarter-veneered panelled back and a pair of shaped open shelves supported between cabriole shaped uprights with shell and foliate-cast keeled angles and acanthus-cast sabots, the lower part with a pair of bevelled glass panel doors with a glazed panel to each side and a mirrored interior, with shaped apron on acanthus-cast scroll sabots, late 19th Century
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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD DISPLAY CABINET, attributable to Joseph-Emmanuel Zweiner, of serpentine outline, with an arch moulded top with a quarter-veneered panelled back and a pair of shaped open shelves supported between cabriole shaped uprights with shell and foliate-cast keeled angles and acanthus-cast sabots, the lower part with a pair of bevelled glass panel doors with a glazed panel to each side and a mirrored interior, with shaped apron on acanthus-cast scroll sabots, late 19th Century
30½in. (77.5cm) wide; 66¾in. (169.5cm.) high; 13in. (33cm. ) deep
Lot Essay
A single-door vitrine of this model, manufactured around 1890 by Joseph-Emmanuel Zweiner of rue de la Roquette, is illustrated in Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Francais du XIX, Paris, 1989, p. 647.