Large cabinet in European lacquer decorated with animated golden landscapes on a black background, opening with two leaves revealing twelve drawers, the middle one hiding three main and three secondary secrets.
Cut-out gilt bronze fittings. Gilded and silvered wood legs carved with openwork foliage and lovebirds.
England, around 1700.
(Small accidents).
Cabinet:
Height: 79 cm - Width: 112 cm - Depth: 50 cm
Frame:
Height: 79 cm - Width: 137 cm - Depth: 58 cm
A very similar piece of furniture, both for the cabinet and the frame, dating from 1688, is kept in the
Victoria & Albert museum in London n° W.29:1 to 14-1912.