A Rare Collector’s Cabinet with Florentine Pietre Dure
A Fine and Rare George II Brass-Mounted Florentine Pietre
Dure and Pietra Alabarese Panel-Mounted Mahogany and Walnut Collector’s Cabinet
Mid 18th Century
6’7” high x 44” wide x 23 1/4” deep
$240,000
A Fine and Rare George II Brass-Mounted Florentine Pietre
Dure and Pietra Alabarese Panel-Mounted Mahogany and Walnut Collector’s Cabinet
in two parts, the upper section with dentil-molded cornice above a
blind-fretwork frieze and a pair of diamond-mullioned glazed doors opening to
an inset early 18 th century walnut case fitted with a marble-veneered
feather-banded and figured walnut drawer mounted with a pierced brass handle
beneath a secret panel sliding to reveal three secret drawers, all over drawers
mounted with brass-edged pietre dure and pietra albarese panels depicting
landscapes, a camel, a dog, an elk, a lion, a boar, an elephant, a bear, a
leopard, and an ox, centered by a panel depicting a dog and a butterfly within
a burr and crossbanded walnut arch over a hinged door mounted with a panel
depicting a leopard being attacked by a bear in a landscape, flanked by
mahogany half-round engaged fluted pilasters with brass capitals and bases and
facing spring-loaded secret document drawers, the cupboard door opening to
shelves, small marble-veneered figured walnut drawers and valenced pigeonholes,
all over a central sliding shelf, the lower section fitted with three graduated
flame-veneered graduated cockbeaded drawers, raised on husk-carved hairy paw feet.
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