Vienna Enamel Cabinet

Rare Viennese cabinet in blackened wood, gilt bronze and hand-painted enamel plates, Vienna, Austria

Exceptional Viennese salon cabinet made of blackened wood and richly adorned with gilt bronze mounts and remarkable hand-painted polychrome enamel plates. The panels illustrate galant, pastoral and country scenes of Rococo inspiration, executed with great finesse of detail and remarkable pictorial quality.

The two-door front reveals three interior drawers also decorated with enamel plaques. The cabinet is surmounted by a carved ormolu group depicting a putto riding a camel, an orientalist motif characteristic of the historicist taste of late XIXᵉ century Imperial Vienna.

Fully decorated on all sides, including the reverse, this cabinet is a remarkable testament to the luxury and craftsmanship of Viennese workshops during the Austro-Hungarian period.
37*26*20 CM
Origine: Vienna, Austria

Era: circa 1870-1890

Materials: blackened wood, chased gilt bronze, hand-painted enamel plates