Details
An Italian walnut, marquetry and bone and pewter-inlaid bureau cabinet, with all over scrolling foliate inlay, with arched pediment above a pair of panelled doors with strapwork designs and central panels of Renaissance figures above hinged fall with hunting scene enclosing fitted interior with frieze drawer below on fluted legs and bun feet joined by stretchers, late 19th century -- 28in. (71cm.) wide, 80½in. (47cm.) deep, 67½in. (171.5cm.) high.
Further details
COMPARATIVE LITERATURECf.Two cabinets of similar form with architectural pediment and inlaid alla certosina illustrated in Nineteenth Century European Furniture, C. Payne, Antique Collector's Club, 1981, p.440, plates 1306 an1307.