A VICTORIAN ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED AMBOYNA AND PURPLEWOOD SIDE CABINET

A VICTORIAN ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED AMBOYNA AND PURPLEWOOD SIDE CABINET
CIRCA 1870
Mounted overall with guilloche, beading, ribbons and paterae, the upper section with gilt-bronze classical figures suspending bunches of grapes, flanking three cupboards with Sèvres-style porcelain plaques finely painted with eighteenth-century courtly ladies and floral sprays, each enclosing a shelf, the lower section with a mahogany-lined central frieze drawer mounted with a porcelain plaque of a cherub writing a love letter, the spiral uprights all turned from solid purplewood
52 ½ in. (134 cm.) high; 42 in. (107 cm.) wide; 21 ¼ in. (54 cm.) deep