Antique Georgian Mahogany Bookcase Secretary Collectors Doctors Cabinet 1790 Mid-Century Modern The lidded jar of ovoid

The lidded jar of ovoid form decorated in brightly colored enamels depicting Imperial courtiers

A municipal scholarship which allowed him to enter the Paris School of Fine Arts in the studio of the painter Léon Bonnat

the artist painted numerous small genre scenes in the style of the Bamboccianti

but was unsuccessful and died there

Antique Georgian Mahogany Bookcase Secretary Collectors Doctors Cabinet 1790 Mid-Century Modern The lidded jar of ovoidA very rare antique George III English Mahogany secretary bookcase, with a fitted collector's or doctor's cabinet to the base, circa 1790. The bookcase in two sections; the top section with a flared cornice with a frieze of dentil molding below, the bookcase with twin glazed doors with intersecting curvilenear astragals, the doors enclosing a pair of adjustable shelves. The base having a deep drawer with a locking fall front desk, fitted with a tooled