A South German walnut, fruitwood and brass marquetry cabinet, Würzburg, second quarter 18th century, attributed to Carl Maximilian Mattern

A South German walnut, fruitwood and brass marquetry cabinet, Würzburg, second quarter 18th century, attributed to Carl Maximilian Mattern

the shaped crest inlaid with a portrait in a medallion on a mother-of-pearl ground above two short drawers, with a slide underneath revealing three further secret small drawers, with two further frieze short drawers above the main body flanked to either side by veneered columns headed by Corinthian style gilded capitals, with two doors separated by a shaped pilaster opening to reveal an arrangement of small drawers and a central niche enclosing further dummy drawers hiding a storage compartment and with a slide revealing secret drawers, the sides each with a door opening to reveal five short drawers, raised by a stepped plinth with two frieze drawers and ball feet, finely inlaid in marquetry with fruitwoods and brass depicting stylized foliage, about 54 drawers in total

85cm. high, 66cm. wide, 33cm. deep; 2ft. 9½in.; 2ft. 2in.; 1ft. 1in.