Italian coffret

Large coffret writing case in ivory marquetry engraved on a background of red tortoiseshell.
Designs from boxwood and ebony and patterned carved nut.
Cover lifts and façade tilts revealing four drawers and a shelf,
Decorated with dragons facing one other on a cartouche dated 1604, foliage rinceau,
caryatids and a frieze of canals and shells.

French work in Italian style from the XVII century.