French Antique Carved Marble Top Renaissance Revival Dessert Server Buffet 1880 Decorative Arts in form this would have

in form this would have been described as a 'miniature' in the Renaissance period

Each bookcase is comprised of three parts

The vessel having twin gilt bronze handles cast as fruiting grape vines and the urn is raised on a turned pedestal foot with a variegated dark green marble base

and printing using wax

French Antique Carved Marble Top Renaissance Revival Dessert Server Buffet 1880 Decorative Arts in form this would haveSOLD A very good antique French carved walnut dessert server, buffet, liquor cabinet in the Renaissance Revival taste, circa 1880. The carved back with a crest of twin cornucopia and a carved Fleur de Lis, flanked by two pairs of turned finials with a raised shelf supported by turned columns. The back having a spindled gallery plate rack with an incised carved panel behind, the top provides an excellent serving area made of Languedoc variegated red