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NP [[underlined]] COPY [[/underlined]] 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