Antique Italian 17th Century Renaissance Carved Walnut Sideboard Credenza 1600 Paintings and mythological figures

and mythological figures

June 20157

The Buddha has an incised urna to his forehead and is wearing his hair in an ushnisha or topknot

The gold swivel locket is set into a 10k yellow gold locket with a 'rope-twist' border and embellished to the top and bottom with acanthus leaves

Antique Italian 17th Century Renaissance Carved Walnut Sideboard Credenza 1600 Paintings and mythological figuresSOLD A rare early 17th century antique Italian Renaissance carved walnut cabinet, Tuscany, circa 1600. The cabinet had been part of the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum San Francisco (now The de Young Museum), and was the property of Ms. Lee Eleanor Graham a San Francisco socialite & decorator in the 1920s. Lee Eleanor Graham was the wife of the oil magnate William Miller Graham who in 1902 had commissioned the building of "Bellosguardo" (Beautiful