Cabinet in ebony and veneer inlaid with fillets and bone pla - Lot 249

Cabinet in ebony and veneer inlaid with fillets and bone plates, opening in the center with two doors surrounded by twelve drawers and topped by a balustrade, and with two drawers in the lower part. They reveal a small theater with three mirror-darkened niches, adorned with three bas-relief statuettes representing Venus and Love, Flora and Pomona holding a cornucopia, the uprights in ringed gilded wood columns. The ceiling is painted in the Neo-Gothic style. Rich ornamentation in bronze and repoussé brass decorated with fire pots, foliage and flower scrolls, horns of plenty, draperies and fruit falls. Flanders, Antwerp, second half of the 17th century Height 106.5; W: 176.5; D: 53 cm (restorations and later parts) It stands on a later-period pedestal with eight inlaid and bronzed tapered legs, joined by a sinuous strut by a sinuous strut (small missing parts). Height 87; Width 183; Depth 60 cm Note : a cabinet of the same spirit, Sotheby's Paris sale, November 4, 2015, lot 321