Pictured above is a masterpiece of French cabinet-making designed by Pierre-Paul Montagnac. The front is decorated in an intricate marquetry patern of silver metal, ivory and amboyna. The entire interior of the cabinet is in bird's eye maple. The entire base and other solid wood trim is narra (solid amboyna). The inset top is the original marble. Believed to be one of just two examples of this model, the other being in macassar ebony. Model exhibited at the Paris Salon d'Automne, 1945.