Lot 12: A PEWTER, GREEN STAINED HORN AND FRUITWOOD INLAID ROSEWOOD AND EBONY VENEERED FLORAL MARQUETRY AND CONTRA PARTIE BOULLE MARQUETRY CABINET, ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF PIERRE GOLE (CIRCA 1620-1680)LOUIS XIV, CIRCA 1670

with two bowed frieze drawers above a canted front with one long drawer above a pair of cupboard doors later inlaid with a roundel with a bird on a plinth amongst carnations, flanked by five further drawers each alternating with flowers, birds and butterflies, the central doors opening to reveal a mirrored interior opening to reveal a later shelf flanked on either side by four small drawers inlaid with boulle marquetry with scrolling foliage with similarly inlaid doors, the sides inlaid with floral marquetry and cornucopia, on a later conforming canted fronted stand with three frieze drawers on six square tapering legs joined by a concave fronted stretcher on flattened bun feet, the whole profusely inlaid with floral marquetry; marquetry on front of doors restored
cabinet only: 89cm. high, 131cm. wide, 47.5cm. deep; 2ft.11in., 4ft. 3½in., 1ft. 6¾in.; stand: 81cm. high, 132cm. wide, 52.5cm. deep; 2ft. 8in., 4ft. 4in., 1ft. 8¾in.