Italian Ebonised and Ivory Inlaid Cabinet on Stand c.1680

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Italian Ebonised and Ivory Inlaid Cabinet on Stand c.1680An elegant and petit Italian Ebonised and Ivory inlaid Cabinet c. 1680. The delicately beautiful piece is created in two parts. The lower stand having boldly turned legs and three inlaid drawers. The top cabinet is dramatic creation of an arrangement of many ornate finely ivory inlaid drawers, a frieze with classical columns surrounding a small cupboard which houses further drawers and secret compartments to hide your treasures. With non transferable

a size that would fit both smaller and large spaces

The Crouching Venus is a Hellenistic statue of Venus at her bath

The ladle or soook waits to unlock its secrets

the mid-section cupboard has two panelled doors aside a central ogee curved panel

1720 with beautifully carved flowers and a perfect patina

featuring a solitary lemon with leaves

A pair of sharply cast and superbly patinated busts of the Goddesses Athena (left) and Antonia (right)

the seat a mirroring shell shaped

There is a tiny historical repair to the tip of her left wing which can be clearly seen in the images

Size includes frame

It epitomises perfectly how a humble object from our past can now be viewed as a sublime work of art

A wonderful Early 19th Century English Elm Settle