This wood panel is composed of a compartmented ceiling in gilded wood, a total base, a splayed aperture and double doors with both open and full parts. The piece is polychrome and gilded, painted with still lives, landscapes and characters.

As soon as we set eyes on this piece, we were fascinated by the sumptuousness of its polychromatic range as well as by several strange elements concerning its history.

Its small size, similar to that of large cabinet, made it impossible to guess the type of room it was destined for, or, for that matter, whether it was made for a château or a hôtel. The central motif on the ceiling represented a composite goddess holding a small male character in her hand, who could very well be the commissioner of the Panel. Amongst other oddities are a nun lifting up her skirts, a scene of human sacrifice and several nefarious emperors and empresses.

After the piece was restored, the exceptional quality of the painting as well as the sculpture, the landscape scenes, flowers and the allegory on the ceiling allowed us to believe that it could have been the work of a great name in seventeenth century painting.