VERY LARGE three-part CABINET with an architectural façade of eight columns and six marble columns with Corinthian and Doric capitals in gilded bronze, decorated with a rich marquetry of grotesques, bucrania, fantastic animals, foliage scrolls and allegorical figures in ivory and semi-precious hard stones on a background of blackened wood and ebony. Slightly recessed upper section with triple curved pediments adorned with three niches with balustrades and three gilded bronze busts. The recessed middle section opens to reveal three leaves, the middle one revealing four small drawers above a theatre with a mirror back. The lower section opens to reveal three drawers above three panels. Renaissance style, circa 1860 / 1880 (small chips and accidents) Italy, Milan by Ferdinando Pogliani or Rome by Giovanni Battista Gatti. H. 261 cm - W. 160 cm - D. 65 cm JB Cracks, minor accidents and missing parts Ferdinando Pogliani (1832-1899), one of the great Milanese cabinet-makers of the second half of the 19th century, specialised in monumental Renaissance-style furniture. He specialised in ebony furniture inlaid with ivory. Established first at 81 Porta Vittoria and then via Montenapoleone, he was a supplier to Italian high society. He was awarded several prizes at exhibitions in Milan in 1871 and 1881, Vienna in 1873 and Paris in 1878. Giovanni Battista Gatti (1816 - 1889), who first settled in Florence and then in Rome at the request of Cardinal Amat, specialised in furniture inlaid with hard stones. He took part in exhibitions in Paris in 1855 and 1878, London in 1862, Dublin in 1865 and Vienna in 1873, where he won numerous prizes. He was notably the supplier of the Emperor of Austria and the Duke of Hamilton. Comparative bibliography : -Christopher Payne, "European Furniture of the 19th Century", Suffolk, 2013, pp. 454-455. For a very similar cabinet: -Sotheby's, London, 12 May 2015, no. 245 CITES Declaration No. FR2606900163-K (species Loxodonta africana)