Cabinet
by WEISWEILER, Adam, Oak veneered with ebony and tulipwood, bronze chased and gilt mounts, soft-paste porcelain plaque, brocatello marble shelves, 97 x 139 x 50 cm
The cabinet, rectangular in shape, has incurving splayed sides lined in glass and divided by a shelf. It is supported on four fluted tulipwood peg-top feet. The single door in the front is flanked by ebony panels fitted with matching candelabrum mounts. The frieze on the front and ends is chased with foliate arabesques, some scrolls terminating in eagle heads, incorporating clusters of grapes and birds. The arabesques are centred at the front on a bacchic head flanked by cornucopias and goats and at either end on a musical trophy between two addorsed putto satyrs. The S�vres porcelain plaque fitted to the door is painted in polychrome with a basket of flowers.