AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND ROSEWOOD VITRINE, with a breakfront stepped pediment with three brêche noisette marble tops, centred by a quarter-veneered cupboard door applied with ribbon-tied foliate pendants, supported by flying birds with central canopy above a dancing bacchante supported by two caryatids with acanthus and scrolling foliage, flanked to each side by a glazed panelled door with glazed sides and mirrored back with shelved interior, the lower part with a quarter-veneered panel mounted with foliate festoons, on circular tapering fluted legs and toupie feet, late 19th Century

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND ROSEWOOD VITRINE, with a breakfront stepped pediment with three brêche noisette marble tops, centred by a quarter-veneered cupboard door applied with ribbon-tied foliate pendants, supported by flying birds with central canopy above a dancing bacchante supported by two caryatids with acanthus and scrolling foliage, flanked to each side by a glazed panelled door with glazed sides and mirrored back with shelved interior, the lower part with a quarter-veneered panel mounted with foliate festoons, on circular tapering fluted legs and toupie feet, late 19th Century
57½in. (146cm.) wide; 66¾in. (169.5cm.) high; 17.1.4in. (44cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' style, this ormolu-enriched vitrine is embellished with a bas-relief of tambourine-bearing Erato, Muse of Poetry. It relates to furniture produced in the 1860s by Parisian firms such as that of Louis-Auguste-Alfred Beurdeley (d.1882), and is decorated with elegant arabesque ornament in the manner of Jean-Henri Riesener (Maître 1768).

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