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19TH CENTURY
Details
An Antwerp ormolu-mounted tortoiseshell ebonised and kingwood table cabinet
19th Century
Mounted overall with floral trails and grotesque masks, the later breakfront top inlaid with simulated panels and lozenges above two sets of four panelled drawers flanking an architectural door with an arched recessed niche centred by a pierced mount of Samson and the lion, surmounted by a shaped, recessed panel and flanked by columns enclosing a fitted interior with four drawers each inlaid with fruitwood bands, on claw and ball feet, minor losses
69cm. high x 120cm. wide x 39cm. deep
19th Century
Mounted overall with floral trails and grotesque masks, the later breakfront top inlaid with simulated panels and lozenges above two sets of four panelled drawers flanking an architectural door with an arched recessed niche centred by a pierced mount of Samson and the lion, surmounted by a shaped, recessed panel and flanked by columns enclosing a fitted interior with four drawers each inlaid with fruitwood bands, on claw and ball feet, minor losses
69cm. high x 120cm. wide x 39cm. deep
Provenance
Château de Bossenstein, Broekem, Belgium
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