Antique Georgian Mahogany Bookcase Secretary Collectors Doctors Cabinet 1790 Sculpture Athanasios enthroned in the Byzantine

Athanasios enthroned in the Byzantine style and painted with egg tempera and heightened with 24 karat gold leaf

38 cm X 33 cm X 15 cm

Also Sotheby's New York have sold two very similar helmets one in November 2016

around the wide mouth of the vase is a band of dark blue sylized floral decoration in the Art Nouveau taste

A very good quality antique Regency mahogany metamorphic dumb waiter/side table

Antique Georgian Mahogany Bookcase Secretary Collectors Doctors Cabinet 1790 Sculpture Athanasios enthroned in the ByzantineA very rare antique George III English Mahogany secretary bookcase, with a fitted collector's or doctor's cabinet to the base, circa 1790. The bookcase in two sections; the top section with a flared cornice with a frieze of dentil molding below, the bookcase with twin glazed doors with intersecting curvilenear astragals, the doors enclosing a pair of adjustable shelves. The base having a deep drawer with a locking fall front desk, fitted with a tooled