Please see the description of the first piece of this set; “armoire.”

This second piece of the suite is a large and unique two-tiered buffet or china presentation cabinet in walnut and oak from Upper Normandy. This exceptional series of pieces, somehow still unseparated, was made by the same maker probably to fulfill a custom order. The doors of the buffet are sculpted with multipoint stars centered in panels which are framed by very eccentric and richly sculpted rippled moldings.

The top doors were planned such that when closed, two sculpted hearts appear stacked one atop the other around the heart-shaped key escutcheon. (These heart-shaped key escutcheons are one of several details which help attribute the origin of the set to upper Normandy).

Both the lower tier and the upper tier open by sophisticated trefoil locking mechanisms which are practically unheard of on regional pieces of this early a date of manufacture. The accolade beneath the upper tier, above the surface of the bottom tier, is in a Louis XIV style encountered primarily during the last half of the 17th century. This piece and this set as a whole being so without comparison, and with an overlapping of unusual period motifs occurring here, it is harder than usual to determine whether these pieces date from the 17th or early 18th century.

These pieces will not be sold separately.

H: 8 ft 10 inches. L: 5 ft 7 inches. D: 26 inches.

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