Gaston Poisson, sideboard

Ref #: SV10

Elegant sideboard of generous proportions and extraordinary quality, featuring African mahogany parquetry top, four doors with moulding frames which surround frustum shaped panels centrally decorated with carvings in applewood emulating Asian motifs. Full interior in mahogany; left and right doors each enclosing single shelf and single drawer, pair of doors in the middle enclosing single large shelf; all shelves frontally inlaid with diamond banding in ebony, fruitwood and mother of pearl. The whole resting on sculpted base with corner scrolls which correspond with door art. In mahogany and African mahogany. Art Deco period, by Gaston Poisson, retaining two original keys with firm initials.

Age: 1920’s/early 1930’s

Origin: Nancy, France

Measurements: 108 3/4″ w, 22″ d, 41″ h