A FLEMISH EBONY, IVORY AND PIETRA DURA CABINET-ON-STAND

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23.07.2020 11:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 42 | A FLEMISH EBONY, IVORY AND PIETRA DURA CABINET-ON-STAND
A FLEMISH EBONY, IVORY AND PIETRA DURA CABINET-ON-STAND

THE PIETRA DURA PANELS FLORENCE, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY, THE GEORGE III EBONISED STAND THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

With an arrangement of eight drawers around a central door inset with a lapis lazuli-bordered panel depicting Orpheus surrounded by the animals, flanked by alabastro fiorito columns and enclosing a frieze drawer inset with amaranth panels above a mirrored architectural recess with a sliding ebony and ivory chequerboard floor, the ripple moulded drawers inset with eighteen specimen pietra dura panels depicting various animals including a unicorn, the stand with square chamfered legs

55 ½ in. (141 cm.) high; 43 in. (109 cm.) wide; 15 in. (38 cm.) deep

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