Artist: Jean-Henri Riesener
Date: 1787
Size: 46 x 54 cm
Museum: Royal Collection (London, United Kingdom)
Technique: Bronze
Mahogany and gilt bronze jewel cabinet; superstructure with a group of putti holding a crown above enjoined coats of arms and flanked by vases of fruit. The frieze with three drawers above two cabinet doors and enclosing eighteen drawers and three shelves. Long regarded as one of the greatest masterpieces of furniture in the Louis XVI style, this objet de luxe combines cabinet-making virtuosity of a high order with quite exceptional gilt bronze mounts. The well-figured, plain mahogany veneers, characteristic of Riesener
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