Here we have an extraordinary ormolu-mounted pier cabinet with a smoothly bevelled Vert Maurin marble top (a green marble from the French Alps), made circa 1820–1840 and formerly retailed and assembled by Edward Holmes Baldock (EHB), regarded as one of the most important English furniture dealers of the early to mid-19th century, and featuring marquetry attributed to the Blake family, among Britain’s leading marquetry and Boulle inlayers of the period. The cabinet is of substantial size and features protruding canted corners to the front.Edward Holmes Baldock was known for incorporating important 17th and 18th century elements from earlier furniture into pieces he retailed, and this cabinet is an exceptional example of that practice. To the centre of the front is a naturalistic marquetry panel depicting an urn of flowers on a stand, resting above scrolling shaped forms. The veneers are particularly thick and finely worked, and this panel is estimated to date from the late 17th to e...