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A FRENCH-IVORY-INLAID, EBONY AND EBONISED CABINET-ON-STAND
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A FRENCH-IVORY-INLAID, EBONY AND EBONISED CABINET-ON-STAND

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH-IVORY-INLAID, EBONY AND EBONISED CABINET-ON-STAND
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
The arched broken pediment centred by a portrait medallion flanked to each side by an inlaid coat-of-arms, above a breakfront cabinet with ten drawers with engraved ivory panels with scenes from Les Misères et Malheurs de la Guerre, with flanking sides applied with pilasters and a female mask, supported on a stand with inlaid backpanel and grotesque trestle front, on a plain base with block feet, the underside of the bottom drawer stamped Toussaint Gillon/Paris/Rue des Martyrs 22/Reperations des meubles anciennes et modernes
80½ in. (205 cm.) high; 50½ in. (128 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44 cm.) deep
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The scenes of the engraved ivory panels are taken from the famous prints series Les Grandes Misères et Malheurs de la Guerre by Baroque printmaker Jacques Callot (c. 1592-1635), who was an important figure in the development of the print. Together with Goya's Disasters of War (published 1863), which was influenced by Callot, this series of 'Miseries and Misfortunes of War' from 1633 is still considered to be amongst the most powerful artistic statements of the inhumanity of war.