This unusual cave-a-licqueur is made of walnut and dates from about 1870. It is decorated with gilt bronze plaques each with a hunting theme.
The top has a central plaque of hunting dogs, with foxes heads to the corners. The front has dogs either side of the keyhole, with a little portrait-bust of the Kaiserin Elisabeth of Austria, a consummate huntress who hunted all over Europe. She is flanked by large trophies, a hare and woodcock to the left, to the right a stag and further gamebirds.
It opens to offer a suite of four decanters and sixteen glasses in cut crystal.