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A Very Important Ormolu Mounted Walnut & Kingwood Meuble DĦAppui, by Joseph Emmanuel Zwiener, Circa 1880. The rectangular rubane campan marble top above an egg and dart moulded with a balustrade, and two flanking drawers mounted with stiff -leaf acanthus, above a conforming case with two cupboard doors, the central raised section mounted with a Bacchante-mask, surmounted by two lovers seated on drapery and military trophies, the base with scrolling foliage and two putti seated on cornucopiae and feeding a goat, the corners with paterea and panelled Corinthian pilasters, over an apron set with a central recessed drawer mounted with a triad and a sword, flanked by shaped drawers each mounted by a bearded mask, the sides with rectangular acanthus-bordered panels, on spirally-turned tapering legs with square acanthus-mounted collars, the mounts stamped with Z.J. Provenance: Formerly from the Baron Etienne van Zuylen van Nijevelt van de Haar, Kasteel de Haar, Haarzuilens, The Netherlands. Thence by descent.
Dimensions: H. 59 ?", W. 58 ?", D. 19"
Condition: Very Good