Mannerist style cabinet

Construction - pine, birch, walnut; hardware - brass, forged steel; 183 x 83 x 49 cm;
Italy, late 19th century.
Tall, cuboidal, closed with two single-leaf doors, with a drawer in the middle, topped with a wide, profiled cornice, supported on four legs, front turned, rear horned, with a front richly decorated with relief ornaments, i.e. masks, tendrils, festoons with fruits and geometric ornaments, painted black.
Framed wings with single panels, framed on the rim with profiled incised mouldings and decorated with a composition with a mask framed by a vise on the upper panel, and a floron at the bottom - with a cabochon in the middle. The drawer's face is pseudo-framed, with an applied slatted frame and leaf decoration. Cornice and pedestal moulding risalitically overhanging the sides of the front, decorated with leaves and ovate, and the cornice also with masks and wavy leaves. The body on the sides of the front decorated at the top with masks, from under which large plums, pears, peaches flow, and at the bottom with leaf volutes extended on the sides striped with leaf decoration.
The interior of the upper chamber, divided by a shelf into two parts, the upper one closed with two doors, where additionally in the interior a division into three niches. Key escutcheons of brass, elongated with two round rosettes at the ends, and in the middle with a mascaron. The drawer handle, forged, fancifully curved, with a round shaft ending in a flat florets, framed on the sides by sigmoid arms fastened with a rim in the middle of the shaft. The lock of the inner cabinet is made of steel in the form of a double-sided, striped, covered bolt.
Italian cabinet in Mannerist style, richly decorated with plastic and various Mannerist ornaments, impressively and eclectically combined, in a typical 19th century manner. The form of the piece of furniture is reminiscent of 16th century document storage furniture, and this is how the presented piece of furniture was prepared and used. Furniture inspired by 16th and 17th century products, along with the development of historicism, became fashionable and sought after throughout Europe. Recently, few similar decorative furniture of this period appear on the Polish antiquarian market.
Good condition, with minor losses of finial decoration.