A SOUTH GERMAN IVORY, MOTHER-OF-PEARL, SPECIMENT MARBLE, SILVER-METAL AND BRASS-MOUNTED PALMWOOD AND EBONY TABLE CABINET Late 16th early 17th Century, probably Augsburg or Munich The stepped pediment flanked by volutes, with three ball-finials and two graduated drawers above a pull-out ratcheted reading slope, the sides with simulated brick-work, above two geometrically panelled doors, each with central star-motif in a shaped cartouche, the reverse with two oval panels centred by a star-motif, the upper oval flanked by pilasters, the lower one by a portico, the architectural interior with 33 variously-sized ash-lined drawers, decorated either with rectangular panels centred by a staf-motif or with roundels and divided by pilasters, surrounding a oval panelled door centred by a star-motif and enclosing a banded ash-lined interior, the sides with carrying-handles and the reverse inlaid with rectangular banding, on bracket feet with turned baluster angles 34¾ in. (88 cm.) high; 38 in. (97 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep
A SOUTH GERMAN IVORY, MOTHER-OF-PEARL, SPECIMENT MARBLE, SILVER-METAL AND BRASS-MOUNTED PALMWOOD AND EBONY TABLE CABINET Late 16th early 17th Century, probably Augsburg or Munich The stepped pediment flanked by volutes, with three ball-finials and two graduated drawers above a pull-out ratcheted reading slope, the sides with simulated brick-work, above two geometrically panelled doors, each with central star-motif in a shaped cartouche, the reverse with two oval panels centred by a star-motif, the upper oval flanked by pilasters, the lower one by a portico, the architectural interior with 33 variously-sized ash-lined drawers, decorated either with rectangular panels centred by a staf-motif or with roundels and divided by pilasters, surrounding a oval panelled door centred by a star-motif and enclosing a banded ash-lined interior, the sides with carrying-handles and the reverse inlaid with rectangular banding, on bracket feet with turned baluster angles 34¾ in. (88 cm.) high; 38 in. (97 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep
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