Coin Cabinet Piedmont, Second Quarter Of The 19th Century

A two-body cabinet completely veneered in mahogany feather; it has both in the narrower upper part and in the lower part two doors surmounted by a drawer and framed by a pair of uprights with an octagonal base.

The uprights are enriched by carvings with pointed arches in the Gothic style, as is the carved cornice with three-light openwork and two pine-cone carved pinnacles in the same style. The lower drawer contains a leather-covered drawer pull that serves as a writing desk; a release mechanism allows the two drawers to open the doors. The lower ones conceal shelves, while the doors of the riser conceal twenty-two maple drawer pulls with coin compartments, some still bearing the piece of velvet on which to rest them; the drawers have mahogany fronts with two knobs each in the form of a silver lion protome. The construction is fir and pine, the fittings finished in brass.