Louis XVI miniature cabinet

Very rare Louis XVI apprentice miniature cabinet in solid walnut, walnut veneer on fir frame and inlaid wood.

It looks like an office boxes, broken-top, surmounted by a firm opening double doors dark glass etched glass.

The piece is topped with a cornice and right based on 6 small ball feet. It opens with two doors above, a flap concealing an interior decorated with four small drawers, a pull station for the support of the flap, 6 large drawers and a central door down. A report of 10 drawers mounted mounting dovetail very neat.

In addition to the exceptional proportions of all the elements work amazingly refined the lid and sides of this small cabinet sign the work of a true cabinetmaker, a work that could be a genuine work of control but a valuable model "in diminutive "before commande.L cabinetmaker has cleverly placed on the bottom of walnut stuffer, a rosewood frame lined with a double thread of holly drawing a net Greek reserves blond sycamore and green tinted decorated 5 small pellets, all serving as a framework for beautiful design central inlay of flowers in a vase placed on a rectangular burr walnut. In part, as the amounts of the lower part, also plated crimp include walnut, but this time with a frame made ??of a straight wide net amaranth alternating squares lined with sycamore and holly, which highlights a rectangle in burr walnut top and checkered squares compounds kingwood and sycamore alternate.

Work of Eastern France, probably implement a cabinetmaker Protestant working in Alsace or Franche - Comté, period late eighteenth early nineteenth century.