Dining room cabinet

Cupboard: the arched bottom part with three do-ors rests on bracket feet there is a drawer above each door. The middle part is open, the top rests on two balusters and two consoles. The slightly lifted middle of the top has a shelved compartment with a hoof-shaped arch. The frieze of the horizontal corniche is decorated with blind arcades. There is a door on each side of the top, with a drawer below and a carved corniche at the top. The dining table can be enlarged it stands on four curved, tapering, pentagonal legs. The steep frieze is also tapering supplementary legs can be drawn out from the sides. The top form a lying rectangle. The chairs have tapering, pentagonal legs at the front and square-tapering ones at the back. The squared seat has slightly curved sides. There is a horizontal corniche at the top, with blind arcades in the frieze. The suite is a typical eclectic piece, mingling Rococo and Middle-Eastern elements. According to information supplied by the seller, who is the great-granddaughter of Aladár Kőrösfői Kriesch (1863-1920), a prominent artist of Hungarian Art Nouveau, the pieces belonged to the Kőrösfői Kriesch's studio house at Gödöllő.