18TH CENTURY

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A Flemish gilt brass-mounted oak cabinet
18TH CENTURY
The arched moulded cornice surmounted by a pierced C-scroll clasp, above a pair of panelled doors, with foilate scrolling sprays, rockwork and dragons, enclosing a later fitted interior with two drawers and four adjustable shelves, flanked by conformingly carved canted rounded angles, above four relief-carved long drawers, on scroll feet and a waved apron
275 cm. high x 142 cm. wide x 63 cm. deep

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Lot Essay

This organic and rockwork-enriched cabinet is conceived in the Liègeois Louis XV manner of the 1760s. A design by Henri Vivroux (Liège 1737-1808) for a related cabinet, executed circa 1765-1770, with similar carved rocaille clasps and panelled upper-section, is illustrated in J. Philippe, Le Meuble Liègeois á son âge d'Or, Liège, 1990, p.56, fig. 72. The distinctive carving of C-scrolls and rockwork with a winged dragon of the panelled doors is closely related to the decoration of a console table, illustrated p. 92, fig 176.

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