Object Description
A Fine Vernis Martin Gilt-Bronze Mounted Side Cabinet with A Marble Top, by Emmanuel Zwiener.
Stamped to the carcass beneath the marble top ‘E. ZWIENER’.
This magnificent cabinet has a shaped ‘fleur de pecher’ marble top above an acanthus cast frieze flanked by female herm figures to the angles, below is a central cupboard door inset with a finely painted vernis Martin panel depicting a Bacchanal, and enclosing three shelves; the shaped apron centred by a finely cast Bacchic mask, the legs terminating in acanthus and lion paw sabots.
French, Circa 1880.