Walnut Lyre Chest with Three Drawers, 1800

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Walnut Lyre Chest with Three Drawers 1800 of Piedmontese origin in excellent condition, it was restored about twenty years ago. … Read more Walnut Lyre Chest with Three Drawers 1800 of Piedmontese origin in excellent condition, it was restored about twenty years ago. The bracket feet are decorated on the front with a carving with foliage and racemes which is repeated on the external frame that frames the drawers, decorated in turn with an oval tableau with geometric decorations made in boxwood inlay, around the escutcheon flush with the lock. The sides are shaped like a lyre, the top with a central inlay in an oval field with a chariot with horse and figures on an ebonized pear background. The top was replaced in the past compared to the original which must have been in marble. Piedmont, first half of the 19th century. See less