Description
A Large 17th Century Carved Italian Chest of Drawers. The top inlaid with two rectangles of stringing and corner quadrants, framed by broad borders of diagonally grained veneers and edged in moulding with carved nulling to the underedge. The chest housing eight drawers set in pairs with imbricated leaf carving to the locking top drawers and turned wooden knobs centring the edge moulded drawers below. The upright divides carved with foliate scroll pilasters above a moulded base raised on carved animal paw feet with petalled pad terminals, 46 in (117 cm) high, 63½ in (161 cm) wide, 27 in (69 cm) deep.