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The decoration of the panel doors, each mounted with a dancing bacchante under a baldacchino, with two arabesque nymphs, interpretes the Pompeian taste, favoured during the Louis XVI period.
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A PAIR OF FRENCH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND KINGWOOD VITRINES In the Louis XVI style, late 19th early 20th Century
Each with a stepped top with variegated marble slabs, the central panel door decorated with a dancing girl clashing a tambourine within foliate-cast and ribbon-tied mounts supported on two nymphs with acanthus-cast tails, flanked to each side by a curved glass panel door, with shelved interior, on fluted toupie feet
56in. (142cm.) wide; 59¾in. (152cm.) high; 17¼in. (44cm.) deep (2)
Each with a stepped top with variegated marble slabs, the central panel door decorated with a dancing girl clashing a tambourine within foliate-cast and ribbon-tied mounts supported on two nymphs with acanthus-cast tails, flanked to each side by a curved glass panel door, with shelved interior, on fluted toupie feet
56in. (142cm.) wide; 59¾in. (152cm.) high; 17¼in. (44cm.) deep (2)