Empire sideboard cabinet

mahogany; 241 x 162 x 58 cm.
Western Europe (Austria?), early 20th century.
With straight sides and a front slightly upswept in the center, two-piece with a two-winged settee and a three-drawer base, topped with a prominent openwork gallery with ovals and decorated with floral brackets with balls. The front decorated at the top and sides with horns of plenty framed by leaves, hermes, caduceus. The whole is supported at the front on two lion's feet, carved with leaves embracing them at the top, at the back on granite legs. The cabinet is veneered with mahogany, carved ornaments painted dark with gilded elements. In the interior of the settee shelves and compartments, at the bottom drawers, of which two side drawers lined with cloth, with numerous compartments for cutlery.