Antique Arabic Walnut Inlaid Mother-of-Pearl Dowry Marriage Chest Damascus 1860 Decorative Arts circa 1899

circa 1899

Cardo Gallery

late 17th Century Florentine Baroque carving of a putto

which was chewed ritually by high ranking Indonesian officials and adopted by settlers from the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC)

Abril was born in 1923

Antique Arabic Walnut Inlaid Mother-of-Pearl Dowry Marriage Chest Damascus 1860 Decorative Arts circa 1899SOLD A very stylish and elegant inlaid Ottoman Arabic dowry chest, Damascus work, circa 1860. This very beautiful antique chest has a serpentine shaped white marble top, with a carved edge of acanthus leaves. The walnut body is extravagantly inlaid with Mother of Pearl decoration, the locking drop front (key present) has floral inlay and the edge of the door is inlaid with a frieze of ebony and bone. The sides of the chest have an incised carved