99. Exceptional four doors cabinet with a crossbow front opening by two leaves in its upper part and two others in its lower part. On the front, two panels with inlaid decoration of musical instruments on a tobacco background answer each other while the lower part unfolds a continuous scene illustrating a gallant couple in a park accompanied by a violinist. The sides are also inlaid on a tobacco background, decorated with the temple of love in a park and bouquets of flowers, the fields veneered with rosewood. The amounts in console are provided with arms of light and falls rocailles, raised by reserves in veneer of burl on bottom of mahogany. Cambered feet. Aleppo breccia marble top with a spout. Stamped A. BEURDELEY IN PARIS. End of the 19th century. (Marble restored). H : 157 cm - W : 90 cm - D : 45 cm. The set we present is the one reproduced in L'Ameublement d'art français 1850-1900, Camille Mestdagh, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2010, page 186 (fig. 212), details of the marquetry on pages 268 and 269 (fig. 314 and 315). The cabinet, although it does not appear to have been shown at the Chicago exhibition of 1893, is the counterpart of the lacquer cabinet in the exhibition. lacquered cabinet of the exhibition. The structure and the ornaments in gilded bronze identical, it differs only by the masterpiece of marquetry carried out. The extraordinary concern for precision in the cutting of the motifs and the search for the smallest detail make these panels like paintings on wood. Mr. Pierre Ramond describes them as "exceptional marquetry" and emphasizes that "the marquetry artist who worked for Beurdeley achieved a quality of cutting equal to that of David Roentgen". Bibliography: MESTDAGH, Camille, L'Ameublement d'art français 1850- 1900, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2010. RAMOND, Pierre, Masterpieces of marquetry from the Regency to our days, editions H. Vial, 2000.