Empire Restoration Liqueur Cellar In Burl And Le Creusot Crystal, Red Moroccan Interior

Beautiful vintage liqueur or whiskey cellar from the early 19th century. It is composed of 6 bottles in cut crystal from Le Creusot, stored in a box in elm burl veneer, with a brass escutcheon, free of any monogram. The interior is lined with red morocco, gilded with small irons. Each decanter is numbered with its cork and has its dedicated location in the box, which allows you to draw up a map of the alcohols presented such as several whiskeys or Cognac while knowing how to identify each one, even in the absence of a label. It is a work from the end of the Empire or the beginning of the Restoration, in the years 1812-1820. With the continental blockade against England making mahogany scarce, the Emperor gave instructions to Imperial Furniture and the Emperor's Household on the use of French wood in cabinetmaking. Thus all the cabinetwork of the Meudon Palace and that of the Children of France pavilion entrusted to Maigret in 1811 and 1812, were made partly in gilded wood or partly painted in French species, walnut, ash, maple, elm like ours. convenient. As the use of these woods became widespread during the Restoration, we often tend to post-date furniture and objects created under the Empire, such as this box. Length: 28.8cm Width: 19.5cm Height: 23cm Height of bottles: 18.5cm Width of bottles: 7cm