A SUBSTANTIAL AND IMPRESSIVE WALNUT AND MARQUETRY COFFER, PROBABLY AUSTRIAN,
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£5,000 - £8,000
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In Renaissance taste, basically 19th century, the hinged rectangular cover with central burr reserve within descending carved tiers of stylised foliate and fluted decoration; the front, back and sides with bone marquetry figural scenes of troika hunts, with projecting grotesques at each corner, above a course of stop fluted gadrooning, on four carved paw feet
