Cabinet
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1700
Materials
Ebonised wood, olivewood, bone, gilt-metal, marble, paint, pine carcass.
Measurements
41 x 48 x 28 cm
Place of origin
Italy
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Trerice, Cornwall
NT 336787
Summary
A small ebonised architectural table cabinet, Italian, circa 1700, the exterior in olivewood arranged in panels outlined in bone, opening to reveal a gilt-metal mounted interior with seven variously-sized drawers around a central drawer modeled as a door with triangular pediment, flanked by outer marble columns, the doors decorated with a male and a female figure painted onto marble, the hinged top opening to a compartment lined with material.