Incredible 19th Century Continental Tortoiseshell and Silver Collectors Cabinet

19th century Anglo-Indian jackwood and ebony cabinet. Dutch colonial era from Ceylon. Two part cabinet resting on ebonized base (3 parts).

Early 18th century bronze mounted inlaid Italian marble top commode. Geometric stars and flowers inlaid in center and sides, ebony inlaid banding, orig...

Early 18th century inlaid Italian walnut and tortoiseshell vargueno. 6 drawers with fine inlay, iron hardware.

19th century French Empire cabinet with bronze mounts and leather top. 2 drawers over 2 door cabinet.

A Spanish tortoiseshell and bone inlaid, ebonized walnut marquetry cabinet on stand. The upper section with a pediment with a double headed eagl...

A traditional Flemish ebonized wood cabinet, made in Antwerp in the 18th Century, with gorgeous tortoiseshell inlaid, supported on a stand with matching tortoiseshell panels and bun ...

Uncovered sample desk made of wood, with the central part advanced and highlighted with a double chapel of architectural composition. Each of the sides has five drawers with the front decorated with tortoiseshell and an elaborate golden bronze lock shield (two rampant lions faced, located on a garland and with a shield crowned between them, in which the hollow of the key). The center of the front has two levels: the lower one has four columns with éntasis, two on each side and joined by an entablature and a top finish in dark wood, and a series of gold metal elements in the center between which it stands out, sheltered under a semicircular arch, the figure of Hercules fighting against Caco; the upper one has some moldings forming some recesses, with an important heraldic shield in the center, all enhanced with volutes towards the sides, and different elements in gilded metal, of classicist inspiration. The general scheme of the furniture responds to a very widespread and valued model in 17th century Europe, of which the best examples have been, as a rule, those of Italian manufacture, and which is continued in the eighteenth century without breaking the compositional clarity of the one that shows in this frontal but yes changing slight decorative details and elements in the area of the central chapel, above all. The practice of using tortoiseshell plates...

A spectacular Italian early 19th century ebony, tortoiseshell and bone specimen cabinet. The two door and twenty two drawer cabinet is raised by elegant bun feet below a rectangular ...