CIRCA 1700

Decorated overall with floral and scrolling motifs, the brass-moulded rectangular top inlaid with a central flowering vase on a scrolling platform flanked by further scrolling and geometrical patterns interspersed with sphinxes, musicians playing the tambourine and trumpet, rustic masks and putti with pewter-inlaid arrows, the sides similarly inlaid, above a frieze drawer and kneehole cupboard door inlaid with a sprig of ivory flowers, flanked by two banks of three drawers with gilded escutcheons, separated by canted uprights, on square tapering legs joined by waved X-framed stretchers, on toupie feet
32 in. (82 cm.) high; 46. 1/2 (118 cm.) wide; 27 in. (69 cm.) deep

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