School of Antwerp, mid-17th century

School of Antwerp, mid-17th century
A gilt-metal mounted, parcel-gilt, tortoiseshell, ebony and ebonised, japanned and ivory-banded cabinet, on a later stand, of eight drawers and a cupboard enclosed by a pair of doors and a drawer and a slide in the base, inset with paintings on copper, the doors with large paintings of the Visitation, the Annunciation, the Nativity and the Adoration; the drawer fronts with a series of scenes from the Life of the Virgin, the exterior with moulded borders of simulated tortoiseshell decorated with gilt flowersprays in the Chinese manner
two panels of 18 1/8 x 14 in. (46 x 35.6 cm.), one panel of 8 5/8 x 6¼ in. (22 x 16.5 cm.), eight panels of 4½ x 11¾ in. (11.4 x 30 cm.), and one panel of 3 3/8 x 8½ in. (8.7 x 21.5 cm.), all measurements approximate