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An Antwerp ebony and ivory cabinet: the rectangular top with hinged lid, enclosing a plain interior and concave moulding above a pair of parallel doors enclosing an architectural interior with a central cupboard door, flanked by ionic columns and enclosing a mirrored stage-set, surrounded by ten walnut-lined drawers, above a plinth fitted with one long drawer, the sides with carrying handles, the base with a pair of panelled doors enclosing one shelf and a further long drawer on bun feet; the drawers and door panels decorated with mythological and biblical scenes: upper panel: Mercury and Herse; central panels (anti-clockwise from top left): Pan and Syrinx; Venus and Adonis; Mercury and Argos; Hero and Leander; Apollo and Hyacinthus; Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Europa; Leto; The education of Achilles by Chiron (central door); door panels (left and right): The abduction of Helen; The finding of Moses
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School of Antwerp, circa 1640
An Antwerp ebony and ivory cabinet: the rectangular top with hinged lid, enclosing a plain interior and concave moulding above a pair of parallel doors enclosing an architectural interior with a central cupboard door, flanked by ionic columns and enclosing a mirrored stage-set, surrounded by ten walnut-lined drawers, above a plinth fitted with one long drawer, the sides with carrying handles, the base with a pair of panelled doors enclosing one shelf and a further long drawer on bun feet; the drawers and door panels decorated with mythological and biblical scenes: upper panel: Mercury and Herse; central panels (anti-clockwise from top left): Pan and Syrinx; Venus and Adonis; Mercury and Argos; Hero and Leander; Apollo and Hyacinthus; Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Europa; Leto; The education of Achilles by Chiron (central door); door panels (left and right): The abduction of Helen; The finding of Moses
64 x 34¼ x 16¼ in. (162.6 x 87 x 41.2 cm.) with the doors closed and including stand
An Antwerp ebony and ivory cabinet: the rectangular top with hinged lid, enclosing a plain interior and concave moulding above a pair of parallel doors enclosing an architectural interior with a central cupboard door, flanked by ionic columns and enclosing a mirrored stage-set, surrounded by ten walnut-lined drawers, above a plinth fitted with one long drawer, the sides with carrying handles, the base with a pair of panelled doors enclosing one shelf and a further long drawer on bun feet; the drawers and door panels decorated with mythological and biblical scenes: upper panel: Mercury and Herse; central panels (anti-clockwise from top left): Pan and Syrinx; Venus and Adonis; Mercury and Argos; Hero and Leander; Apollo and Hyacinthus; Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Europa; Leto; The education of Achilles by Chiron (central door); door panels (left and right): The abduction of Helen; The finding of Moses
64 x 34¼ x 16¼ in. (162.6 x 87 x 41.2 cm.) with the doors closed and including stand
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