Gabriel Viardot (1830 - 1906) French A fine late 19th century French walnut bank of display shelves in the French Japonism taste circa 1885, three central shelves sit below a top decorated with a pierced frieze, upon which an ormolu dragon peers from beneath a central hood, below a five divisional newspaper stand, all raised on swept scrolling supports and framed by applied cast pierced panelled sides, 139 cm high, 57 cm wide, 38 cm high, (unsigned).