Important Curved Support Unit With Columns In Boulle Marquetry Napoleon III Period Napoleon 3

DESCRIPTION: Beautiful and important piece of furniture in boulle marquetry of brass, bone and mother-of-pearl on an ebony veneer background. Impressive piece of furniture in terms of its dimensions for a single-door piece of furniture, with two large convex sides, two richly decorated detached columns, including a belt drawer in the huate part (rare). Very rich marquetry of extreme finesse with scrolls, interlacing, foliage scrolls, bouquets, urns, reserves. Marquetry of rare refinement present on the door and on the upper part. The rest of the furniture is treated with doubled brass threads on the sides and bottom. Very beautiful ornamentation of gilded bronzes with multiple ingot molds, columns decorated with quarter drops of acanthus, asparagus, Corinthian columns, door decorated with a large canopy framed with ribbons and ending with foliage descents, apron on the lower part, spandrels on the sides framing a beam decorated with a ribbon. Mahogany interior with two shelves, white Carrara marble top with recessed ears. DIMENSIONS: H 116 x L 117 x D 51 PERIOD: Napoleon III around 1860 AVAILABILITY: immediate PRICE: €2,690