Marquetry cabinet on a stand

An image of Furniture. Cabinet on stand. Unknown maker. Cabinet with ten drawers, and a central cupboard flanked by corinthian columns and pilasters, decorated with marquetry of vases of flowers, birds, and flowering sprays, on an ebonized wood stand. Ebonized wood stand, height, cabinet, 31 ¼ in, width, cabinet, 54¼ in, depth, cabinet, 17 7/8 in, height, stand, 36 7/8 in ,width, stand, 52 3/4 in, depth, stand, 18¼ in, circa 1680-circa 1690. The stand is of later manufacture. Baroque. Louis XIV.

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Furniture. Cabinet on stand. Unknown maker. Cabinet with ten drawers, and a central cupboard flanked by corinthian columns and pilasters, decorated with marquetry of vases of flowers, birds, and flowering sprays, on an ebonized wood stand. Ebonized wood stand, height, cabinet, 31 ¼ in, width, cabinet, 54¼ in, depth, cabinet, 17 7/8 in, height, stand, 36 7/8 in ,width, stand, 52 3/4 in, depth, stand, 18¼ in, circa 1680-circa 1690. The stand is of later manufacture. Baroque. Louis XIV.

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Accession Number: MAR.M.210 & A-1912
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Image Library; Fitzwilliam Museum
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 834.67kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 800
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2010:08:07 08:50:13

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17th Century Baroque birds cabinet columns drawers ebonised ebony Fitz_AA floral flowers French furniture Louis XIV Louis XV marquetry stand wood wooden

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