A VIENNESE BIEDERMEIER BRASS-INLAID EBONISED, SABICUE AND MARQUETRY ETAGERE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A VIENNESE BIEDERMEIER BRASS-INLAID EBONISED, SABICUE AND MARQUETRY ETAGERE
Early 19th Century
The circular top with foliate trails on two arched supports and two undertiers with the gallery inlaid with a floral trellis pattern, the lower gallery with a frieze-drawer flanked by two arrows beneath a flowerhead, the supports decorated with a coiling snake and foliate trails, on a conforming support with scrolling dragon-headed additional supports to each corner and on splayed legs joined by a flat stretcher decorated with a semi-circular geometric pattern, losses to the decoration, the feet tipped
24½ in. (62 cm.) wide; 49½ in. (126 cm.) high; 19½ in. (50 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Figural carvings on Biedermeier furniture first appeared in a drawing in the Akademie der bildenden Künste for a work-table by Gottlieb August Pohle of 1806, which has scrolling harpie supports (G. Fabianowitsch, C. Witt-Dörring, 'Genormte Fantasie', Exhibition Catalogue, Vienna, 1996, p. 80, fig. 81). This fashion remained popular until the early 1820s, when the brass-inlay was also discarded. The drawer of this étagère is lined in polished maple which replaced yew-wood linings in about 1807.

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