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Mr. William Randolph Hearst
St Donat's castle
LLantwit Major
South Wales  

^[[Paris,]] July 9th 1932

10.686
A Renaissance cabinet of carved walnut "á deuce corps". German or Flemish work of the end of the XVIth century.

The Upper part encloses 3 small panels carved with St Marco (lion) on the left. Virgin and child, in the centre, and St Luc (bull) on the right. It is surmounted 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 each 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

4.61
A large mantel of ancient faience. German work of the end of the XVIth century.

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

From the collection of Francois Flameng.
Price......Frs   [[underlined]]42.000[[/underlined]]
carry on......Frs    162.000