AN AUSTRIAN WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET

POSSIBLY VIENNA, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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AN AUSTRIAN WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET
Possibly Vienna, second quarter 18th Century
Of arbalette shape, the top section fitted with twelve variously-sized drawers and a central door inlaid with geometric motif, the shaped cresting with moulded border, the sides fitted with handles, above a fall-front concealing an interior fitted with six small drawers and two pigeon holes, above a slide and three shaped long drawers simulated as nine drawers with further handles to the sides, on later bracket feet, with indecipherable remains of label to the back, numbered in chalk '426', and with further black ink inscription 'Leg Braregg...'

Lot Essay

The delicate geometric interlaced strapwork decoration of this bureau-cabinet is a recurrent feature on Viennese furniture of the 1740s. A number of similarly decorated items of furniture, including two Schränke and a longcase clock, are illustrated in M. Zweig, Wiener Brgermöbel aus Theresianischer und Josephinischer Zeit (1740-1790), Vienna, 1921, figs. 1-3.

A related walnut bureau-cabinet, with similar arrangement of inlaid drawers, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 29 November 1985, lot 75 (£13,200).

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