Heinrich GAMBS (ca. 1765-1831), Angle cabinet in Empire style

mahogany, oak, beech, walnut stained birch, brass veining, gilt brass, mirrored panel; 164.2 x 91 x 62 cm.
St. Petersburg, ca. 1800-1810.
Two-piece, with straight sides, with a high niche at the top lined inside with mirrored panels, set on a two-door cabinet, with a quarter circular front, veneered with patterned mahogany, decorated with veining arranged in several geometric patterns: in essy-flores reminiscent of a flowered thread, arcading, a braid with crosses inside, a truss with points and a brick wall. The niche at the top is topped with a small rectangular canopy, and at the bottom on the sides it is flanked by triangular flanks, framed by escutcheons at the top, under which rectangular supports. In the interior two shelves.