Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks - 9th January 2019
Lot 383
A 19th century Italian Florentine ebony and ebonised pietra dura cabinet in Baroque style
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £9500
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Description
A 19th century Italian Florentine ebony and ebonised pietra dura cabinet in Baroque style, inset overall with various marble and hard stone panels, including: lapis lazuli, breche d'alep, Spanish brocatalle, red serpentine, Siena, vert maurin, onyx, alabasters, the swan neck pedimented top surmounted by a bronze bust of Cosimo de Medici, above architectural mouldings, with a recessed arch flanked by urn finials, above five drawers, with gilt bronze Moor's head handles, flanked by four alabastro fiorito Corinthian columns, the sides with cupboard doors above a single deep drawer with a faux front, the inside with a typed paper label inscribed 'Bought from Mr Cleverly, Swindon, about 1926.', the base with a frieze drawer above a panelled cupboard door, 275.5cm high, 99.5cm wide, 52cm deep.