Antique Arabic Walnut Inlaid Mother-of-Pearl Dowry Marriage Chest Damascus 1860 Sold United States

United States

This very rare & important 16th century German Renaissance painting is ready to grace your wall

Klever showed talent as a child and received lessons from Konstantin von Kügelgen

While maintaining a national reputation throughout the 1950s and 1960s

and she was represented by Allen Sheppard Gallery

Antique Arabic Walnut Inlaid Mother-of-Pearl Dowry Marriage Chest Damascus 1860 Sold United StatesSOLD A very stylish and elegant inlaid Ottoman Arabic dowry chest, Damascus work, circa 1860. This very beautiful antique chest has a serpentine shaped white marble top, with a carved edge of acanthus leaves. The walnut body is extravagantly inlaid with Mother of Pearl decoration, the locking drop front (key present) has floral inlay and the edge of the door is inlaid with a frieze of ebony and bone. The sides of the chest have an incised carved