Victorian ormolu mounted marquetry vitrine cabinet

This Victorian period ormolu (gilt bronze) mounted side cabinet, or credenza, features an undulating serpentine outline. The cabinet is set to the front centre with twin doors, opening to reveal a one-shelf cabinet, the ebonised wooden surface of the doors ornamented with elaborate pictorial marquetry inlays in the form of floral bouquets. Either side of these central twin doors is a glazed door, revealing a pair of one-shelf vitrine cabinets, both doors featuring an S-form profile in keeping with the serpentine form of the body.

Above and below the doors, the upper and lower registers of the face of the cabinet are detailed with exquisite veneers and mounted with finely cast ormolu elements. The ormolu mounts throughout take classicising forms, most strikingly the masks that mount each of the four uprights.

The four doors are lockable by key, which is included.