Lot 24
24
A VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MONTED SATINWOOD, PARCEL-GILT AND INLAID VITRINE CABINET, the breakfront top strung with boxwood and bone with a moulded and ormolu-mounted acanthus cast edge, with rounded ends, the freize inlaid with Grecian ornament and anthemion with reeded ribbon-tied moulding above a pair of glazed panel doors enclosing a velvet lined shelved interior, flanked to each side by three fluted columnettes with carved capitals and a convex glazed door, the apron outlined and inlaid with egg-and-dart moulding on, toupie feet

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A VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MONTED SATINWOOD, PARCEL-GILT AND INLAID VITRINE CABINET, the breakfront top strung with boxwood and bone with a moulded and ormolu-mounted acanthus cast edge, with rounded ends, the freize inlaid with Grecian ornament and anthemion with reeded ribbon-tied moulding above a pair of glazed panel doors enclosing a velvet lined shelved interior, flanked to each side by three fluted columnettes with carved capitals and a convex glazed door, the apron outlined and inlaid with egg-and-dart moulding on, toupie feet
78½in. (199.5cm.) wide; 42¼in. (107cm.) high; 17½in. (45cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This vitrine-cabinet with paired Renaissance columnettes and inlaid Grecian ornament reflects the French 'Pompeian' style that became fashionable in the 1860's, and later appeared in 'Cabinet Furniture', 1880, issued by the Shoreditch cabinet-makers and wholesalers such as Messrs Charles & Richard Light.

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