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AN ITALIAN GILT-METAL MOUNTED EBONY, EBONISED, TORTOISESHELL AND REVERSE GLASS PAINTED CABINET ON STAND
NAPLES LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE STAND 19TH CENTURY
AN ITALIAN GILT-METAL MOUNTED EBONY, EBONISED, TORTOISESHELL AND REVERSE GLASS PAINTED CABINET ON STAND NAPLES LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE STAND 19TH CENTURY The moulded rectangular breakfront cornice above a plain frieze and seventeen variously sized drawers centred by a door simulating ten various architectural frames each inset with a reverse-glass painted panel, the central door enclosing an architectural compartment with two drawers concealing six secret drawers, flanked by four rectangular reverse-glass panels decorated with putti to each side, the stand with a rectangular panelled frieze flanked and divided by four reverse-glass paintings each of a grotesk's mask, on spirally turned supports joined by a spirally turned H-stretcher centring on a flaming urn, on toupie feet 214 cm. high x 195 cm wide x 48 cm. deep