A SPANISH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD, WALNUT, RED TORTOISESHELL AND MARQUETRY CABINET ON LATER STAND

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A SPANISH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD, WALNUT, RED TORTOISESHELL AND MARQUETRY CABINET ON LATER STAND
17TH CENTURY

Inlaid overall with scrolled banding, the breakfront cornice above a central door with arcading with Hercules slaying Cacus and with Athena flanked by Solomonic columns, enclosing four later walnut-lined drawers, simulated as two drawers each, flanked by three drawers, above a moulded cornice and on ebonised and parcel-gilt claw-and-ball feet, the later stand with top with rosewood panels and ivory-banded edge, on turned trestle supports with S-shaped baluster iron stretchers, two escutcheons lacking, restorations to the plinth and cornice
56in. (142cm.) wide; 61in. (155cm.) high; 18½in. (47cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A further 17th Century copy of the central mount showing Hercules slaying Cacus is in the Museo Civico D'Arte Industriale in Bologna and illustrated in Museo Civico d'Arte Industriale e Galleria Davia Bargellini, Catalogue, Bologna, 1987, p. 212, illus. 162.
A related cabinet-on-stand was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 19 March 1992, lot 149

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