Lot Essay
The richly carved and serpentined case of flower-festooned acanthus-scrolls is designed in the Louis XV picturesque manner.
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A FRENCH CARVED GILTWOOD GLAZED CABINET 'VITRINE' WITH POLYCHROMED VIGNETTES
Late 19th Century
The arched top carved with scrolls above a pair of glazed panel doors, flanked by a glazed panel to each side, with mirror back and two glass shelves, supported by reeded pilasters, the commode base painted in vernis martin with Romantic waterside-vignettes at the sides and a trellis-arched scene of a Turkish cavalryman taking leave of his family, flanked by two side panels each with landscape views, the paint refreshed
54in. (137cm.) wide; 87in. (221cm.) high; 14¼in. (36cm.) deep
Late 19th Century
The arched top carved with scrolls above a pair of glazed panel doors, flanked by a glazed panel to each side, with mirror back and two glass shelves, supported by reeded pilasters, the commode base painted in vernis martin with Romantic waterside-vignettes at the sides and a trellis-arched scene of a Turkish cavalryman taking leave of his family, flanked by two side panels each with landscape views, the paint refreshed
54in. (137cm.) wide; 87in. (221cm.) high; 14¼in. (36cm.) deep