- Title : Cabinet, for the double parlor of Frederico Vercelloni's residence, Sordevolo, Italy
- Artist: Agostino Lauro Designer
- Accession: 87.1545.11.23.11
- Country: Italy Turin
- Date: 1900 1901
- Dimensions: Inches 87-1/4 43-1/2 17-3/4, Centimeters 221.6 110.5 45.1
- Collection: Object
- Category: Decorative Arts and Furniture
- Collection Theme: Art Nouveau
- Subject: Furniture/Furniture Design , Interior Decoration
- Credit Line: The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
- URL: 87.1545.11.23.11.JPG
- Tags: Art Nouveau~Stile Florale, Italian Art Nouveau~Decorative Arts and Furniture
Description:
Carved mahogany double door cabinet, carved and pierced high relief decorative irises and entrelacs along top of cabinet with single pedestal shell at top center; single shelf on each side of upper part of cabinet, central pair of cabinet doors, each side divided with 18 beveled glass lights (panes); elaborate brass escutcheon plates, shelves inside cabinet, below doors are a pair of false, wedge-shape drawers carved in high relief with chestnut leaves and nuts and mounted with brass handles; on each side is another single shelf and drawer below brass hardware, open section below with a recessed pedestal forming an arched bridge between front and rear legs, carved chestnut leaves along lower pedestal and along front feet.