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JACQUES SELIGMANN & FILS
57 rus St. Dominique, Paris

July 9th, 1931

Mr. William Randolph HEAST
St. Donat's Castle
Llantwit Major
South Wales

10.686

A Renaissance cabinet of carved walnut "a deux corps".
German or Flemish work of the end of the XVIth Century.

The upper part encloses 3 small panels carved with St. Marc (lion) on the left.  Virgin and Child, in the centre, and St. Luc (bull) on the right.  It is surmounted with a finely carved frieze and supported by two female caryatides. The lower part has two doors, the panels of which are carved with coat-of-arms; they are separated from each other with a female caryatide and have a male caryatide at the other side. Above the door is a drawer.

Height: 5'6 - 1/2"
Width: 4'2-3/4"
Depth: 2' 3/4"

This cabinet is elaborately carved and belonged probably to a cardinal or an archbishop, whose arms are shown on the door panels.

It was exhibited at the "Renaissance Tapestries Exhibition" at the Gobelins Manufacture, Paris, June 1929.

PRICE................Frs  120.000

4.161

A large Mantel of ancient faience.
German work of the end of the XVI Century.

Height: 7'3"
Width: 6'5-3/4"

From the collection of Francois Flameng.

PRICE.............[[underlined]]Frs  42.000[[/underlined]]
carry on .........Frs.  162.000