Victorian sideboard in rosewood and bois de rose, with ebony and rosewood threads, ebonized moldings and gilded bronze applications. Tripartite front, of which the central body juts out, composed of a paneled door, porcelain insert with painting of musician damsels, enclosed by a gilded bronze frame worked with ribbons and leaves. Glass side doors alternating with turned columns with gilded bronze bases and capitals. In the band below the top, there are centrally located porcelain tiles painted with cherubs and faces of ladies, enclosed in gilded bronze moldings which continue along the entire band. Turned and ebonized feet, burgundy velvet interior.
England, second half of the 19th century.