Antique Italian Renaissance Revival Carved Walnut Liquor Wine Cabinet Chest on Stand Cherubs 1880 Decorative Arts The sculpture is finely modeled

The sculpture is finely modeled representing the Goddess of Plenty holding a cornucopia of fruit

The cheese press having been fully & professionally restored

signed & dated 1985

using frottage

with enameled floral & bat decoration

Antique Italian Renaissance Revival Carved Walnut Liquor Wine Cabinet Chest on Stand Cherubs 1880 Decorative Arts The sculpture is finely modeledA very fine antique Italian Florentine Renaissance Revival carved cabinet on stand, circa 1880. The cabinet has some of the finest carvings we have seen on a late 19th century cabinet, In two sections. The top with a stepped crown and a carved 'brickwork' band below, the hinged front (with original lock & key) is flanked by a pair of carved nude caryatid supports. The drop front is lavishly carved with a Bacchanalian scene of cherubs with a lion cub,