Antique French Marquetry Ormolu Side Table 3 Drawer Cabinet Commode Paul Sormani Drawings & Prints France and to the foreground

France and to the foreground is a man loading baskets of fish onto a workhorse

She wears a bronzed bodice with leaf decoration in relief and is raised on a varigated grey & white socle base

The border decorated with an Aesthetic Movement style design

Wonderful pair of four-panel byôbu 屏風 (folding screens) covered with four separate hanging scroll paintings 掛け軸 (kakejiku) depicting different taka 鷹 (hawks) perched & tethered different seasons

10 cm X 10 cm

Antique French Marquetry Ormolu Side Table 3 Drawer Cabinet Commode Paul Sormani Drawings & Prints France and to the foregroundSOLD An important antique French Louis XV transitional style gilt bronze mounted amaranth & kingwood marquetry table crire, by Paul Sormani, Paris, circa 1870. A beautiful bombe shaped three drawer table by one of the most important French cabinet makers of the late 19th century. The top is exquistley inlaid with floral marquetry & a central panel of criss crossing stylized flowers, the edge having a gilt bronze gallery. The front is fitted with three