Jewellery storage cabinet

Stunning and precious jewellery storage cabinet made out of porphyry and samples of hard stones.Small feet with coiling acanthus leaves in a supporting arrangement with cut-off rounded corners adorned with a close set of hard stones.
The cabinet opens on the right-hand side with two red bevelled porphyry plated double doors from Egypt, revealing four chests of drawers and a silver-plated lid highlighted with gemstones.The reverse is decorated with a copper plate engraved with a crowned serpent’s coat of arms.

Russian work circa 1880.