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Lot n° 145

EXCEPTIONAL CABINET Made of ebony, ebony veneer,...

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EXCEPTIONAL CABINET Made of ebony, ebony veneer, tortoiseshell and ivory filets Opening with thirteen drawers and a belt drawer decorated with ebony mouldings and gilded bronze interlacing. Two central doors decorated with pilasters topped with caryatids and a pediment reveal a series of eight drawers and a theatre with seven colonettes, mirrors and a checkerboard of ebony and ivory veneer. The upper part is topped by an openwork gallery decorated with wooden balusters. It rests on a blackened wood and tortoiseshell veneer base with gilded twisted columns made with a lathe with an off-centre point. Flanders, 17th century. Missing and restored. 223 x 139 x 48 cm