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A PAIR OF EMPIRE BIRCH AND WALNUT POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMOIRES
CIRCA 1815, VIENNA
Each with rectangular moulded top above a long drawer and a convex cupboard door opening to reveal three shelves and fitted with a central lockplate radiating a sunburst veneer flanked by a pair of tapering pilasters headed by scantily clad caryatids and ending in hairy lion's paw feet, each bearing a paper label inscribed 'Herrn Dr. M. Melchior, Beuthen O.S., Guttenbergstr.13'-62½in. (157cm.) high, 36in. (90cm.) wide, 19½in. (49cm.) deep (2)
CIRCA 1815, VIENNA
Each with rectangular moulded top above a long drawer and a convex cupboard door opening to reveal three shelves and fitted with a central lockplate radiating a sunburst veneer flanked by a pair of tapering pilasters headed by scantily clad caryatids and ending in hairy lion's paw feet, each bearing a paper label inscribed 'Herrn Dr. M. Melchior, Beuthen O.S., Guttenbergstr.13'-62½in. (157cm.) high, 36in. (90cm.) wide, 19½in. (49cm.) deep (2)
Literature
A. Wilkie, Biedermeier, 1987, p. 53.