A Flemish Ormolu-Mounted, Ebony, Tortoiseshell and Pietra Dura Cabinet on Stand

The moulded cornice with associated ormolu figures above a frieze of two drawers, the panelled doors with strapwork moulding and centred by tortoiseshell panels, some with bone fillets, opening to reveal an arrangement of twelve drawers decorated with an arrangement of rectangular and square pietra dura panels, the rectangular panels depicting pairs of animals, including deer, horses, leopards and camels, the square panels depicting birds on branches with fruit and butterflies, surrounding a central door of architectural design, with a pediment over a panel depicting Justice, flanked by ormolu Classical figures above a broken pediment supported by four onyx columns flanking a central arched panel depicting the fall of man, opening to reveal a mirrored interior with a checkboard floor and giltwood columns and with two shallow and one deep drawer above and below, on a spirally turned stand joined by a stretcher on bun feet, the reverse of some panels with illegible 17th century signature

Estimate:£40,000

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