This shows the cheek painting with the extended bentside on the right from the line of the arrow to the present bentside/cheek join.  The figures on the cheek were probably once centred on the cheek as a whole but, when the bentside was extended, the right-hand end of the cheek and its painting were cut off.  The painting on the extended bentside is clearly by a different hand from the original, 1750 vernis martin decoration.

The case decoration has been partly cleaned, but not restored, in this photograph.

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