Salon cupboard

The cupboard stands on a narrow, rectangular foot veneered with hammered bronze sheet. The standing prismatic bottom part hides six drawers and supports the wider prismatic top which has three doors. The whole surface is decorated with checked inlay, divided by small oval fields. On the outside of the right door, in the middle, there is a relief depicting mermaids resting among rose boughs. This cupboard, made by Leopold Bauer, is a richer variant of the original that was exhibited at the 15th Art Nouveau Exhibition in Vienna. On the original there were no ovals enriching the chessboard decoration of the top.