A North European brass-mounted mahogany dwarf display cabinet, the rectangular moulded top with three-quarter pierced gallery above single astragal-glazed door flanked by channelled uprights with roundels on square tapering legs with brass feet, mid-19th century, Baltic region, possibly Russian, the lock indistinctly stamped -- 28¼in. (72cm.) wide, 14½in. (37cm.) deep, 43in. (109cm.) high.

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A North European brass-mounted mahogany dwarf display cabinet, the rectangular moulded top with three-quarter pierced gallery above single astragal-glazed door flanked by channelled uprights with roundels on square tapering legs with brass feet, mid-19th century, Baltic region, possibly Russian, the lock indistinctly stamped -- 28¼in. (72cm.) wide, 14½in. (37cm.) deep, 43in. (109cm.) high.

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: A bookcase in the Pavlovsk Palace Museum with similar glazing bars and roundels combined with pilaster uprights and square tapering legs, illustrated in Russian Furniture, The Golden Age, 1780-1840 Antoine Cheneviere, 1988, p. 133, plate 122.

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