Japanese style display cabinet; early 20th century.

Stained riparian wood, glass and gilded bronze, mother-of-pearl and velvet applications.
It presents faults in the back and restoration in one of the legs.
Measurements: 190 x 78,5 x 34 cm.
Cabinet made of dyed wood of dyed riverbank of clear oriental inspiration. The piece has two bodies, a lower one with shelves divided into two streets, one topped as a display case and the other open. In the upper part of the piece, the cabinet has a round perimeter showcase. Aesthetically the work follows the models of the piece of furniture made by Louis Majorelle known as "Vitrine Grand Dragon".
Louis Majorelle (France, 1859 - 1926) cabinetmaker and designer member of the School of Nancy, of which he was even vice-president, Louis Majorelle was the son of a furniture designer and manufacturer based in the town of Toul, from where he moved to Nancy with his family. There Majorelle made his first artistic training, then went to Paris in 1877, where he studied for two years at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he was taught by Jean-François Millet. Since then, his work has been characterized by the use of naturalistic elements in his forms and marquetry. From the nineties onwards, his furniture will be fully framed in the Art Nouveau language, with intertwined forms and a clear direct inspiration from nature, with motifs such as vegetables, water lilies, the typical Nancy thistle or the dragonfly, an icon of French modernism.