"Renaissance Two-piece Dresser Buffet Called "sacristy" Credenza XVIIth Century Flanders"
Sideboard with two bodies in molded and carved oak opening in the lower part with two doors carved in the center with lion heads and a belt drawer decorated with a frieze of large gadroons and lion's muzzles. Uprights adorned with caryatids, flowers and stylized acanthus leaves. The recessed upper part supported by a caryatid and an atlantean carved in half-round relief, opens with two doors and a flap in the carved center suggesting a tabernacle and revealing three drawers, decorated with a winged cherub's head, vase and flowers. On either side of the central false door, on the fixed frames, a bust of a woman and a bust of a man are carved, no doubt the sponsors of this precious piece of furniture. Feet in flattened balls.height: 172 cm - width: 131 cm - depths of 42 cm at the top to 65 cm at the bottom
17th century period, good condition, usual restorations
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