A Victorian marquetry and ormolu-mounted side cabinet

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A Victorian marquetry and ormolu-mounted side cabinet
crossbanded and inlaid with lines, decorated with trailing berried stems with egg-and-dart and foliate mouldings, the mirrored back of broken outline with a ribbon-tied cresting and two shelves, the lower part of breakfront D-shaped outline and enclosed by a pair of panelled doors decorated with ribbon-tied vine stems, with paterae, tablets with griffons and centred by an oval panel of musical trophies, flanked by stiles with caryatids and with galleried bowed open shelves to either side, on a plinth base -- 63½in. (161cm.) wide, 15in. (38cm.) deep, 83½in. (212cm.) high

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