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DESCRIPTION:
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early 20th century
Elaborately inlaid overall with geometric motifs, insects and bone, the columnar supports with embossed copper foliate mounts, the upper mirror back flanked by an open shelf above a hinged door enclosing an arrangement of small drawers and pigeonholes, the central open shelf below a small frieze drawer and shaped apron, the vellum base decorated with foliage and the Arabic for 'I found trustworthiness to be the robe of wealth', the lower section with a glazed cupboard door enclosing a leather lined interior with one shelf
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