A William IV rosewood display cabinet/bookcase, the moulded cornice above a gilt embellished frieze worked with a band of lotus leaves and fitted with two pairs of glazed doors each enclosing an adjustable gilt-metal mounted shelf and flanked by moulded columns with acanthus and lotus-carved capitals, the base fitted with four glazed doors with later glazing bars, flanked by further moulded acanthus- carved columns, on a moulded plinth with paw feet headed by scrolls, 77in. (195cm.) wide

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A William IV rosewood display cabinet/bookcase, the moulded cornice above a gilt embellished frieze worked with a band of lotus leaves and fitted with two pairs of glazed doors each enclosing an adjustable gilt-metal mounted shelf and flanked by moulded columns with acanthus and lotus-carved capitals, the base fitted with four glazed doors with later glazing bars, flanked by further moulded acanthus- carved columns, on a moulded plinth with paw feet headed by scrolls, 77in. (195cm.) wide

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