Cypress cabinet with flat carved decoration and ink highlights. It opens with a flap over a central door framed by eleven drawers, one hidden by the pediment; the two upper drawers conceal two others; secret at the bottom containing three drawers and a compartment; flap framed with foliage surrounding a landscape with rider and soldiers; inside the flap depicting Judith holding the head of Holofernes between two soldiers surrounded by an encampment; framed with foliage; similar foliage decoration on the drawers. Northern Italy, Friuli, late 16th century H. 54.8 cm - W. 55.6 cm - D. 35.8 cm (restorations, small accidents and missing parts) Handwritten inscription in ink inside Bonaparte Jerome Guillaume Bruel. Three keys

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