Important carved and inlaid 19th-century bookcase

Important walnut bookcase, richly carved and inlaid.
The upper section features four glazed doors.
Richly carved with masks, relief friezes, acanthus leaves, and floral motifs.

The uprights are adorned with historical, genre, and literary scenes, inlaid and pyro-engraved in various woods, pewter, and mother-of-pearl.

Projecting cornice, friezes carved with roses and animal heads, and at the center a crowned heraldic coat of arms and marquetry of roses.

The lower section, with hidden compartments and a top inlaid and pyro-engraved with flowers and announcing archangels, opens with four doors edged in various woods and decorated with openwork friezes, interrupted by uprights carved with stylized motifs, leaves, and flowers in relief.

19th-century workmanship, circa 1840.

Dimensions: Length 334 cm x Height 365 cm x Depth 68 cm