Square-section liquor cellar in rosewood veneer and light wood fillets, the sides centered with hanging handles decorated with scrolls and shells, the lid revealing a removable tray with a bronze scalloped grip surmounting a turned blackened wood baluster and containing four molded Creusot crystal decanters surrounded by twelve small stemmed glasses. Restoration period. 25.5 x 29.5 x 30 cm. (Very slight chips to the crystals and wear to the lid, missing a small foot at one corner of the top).

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