AN AUSTRIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED ARMOIRE with shaped moulded cornice decorated with foliate sprays above a central door with foliate panel within C-scroll and rockwork sprays and simulated planked wood, above a further view of a town inscribed Johana Christiana Vogterin AÒ, 1779, enclosing a fitted interior with hanging hook and a later set of divided shelves, with drawer to the base and on shaped feet, last quarter 18th Century, restorations to decoration
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AN AUSTRIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED ARMOIRE with shaped moulded cornice decorated with foliate sprays above a central door with foliate panel within C-scroll and rockwork sprays and simulated planked wood, above a further view of a town inscribed Johana Christiana Vogterin AÒ, 1779, enclosing a fitted interior with hanging hook and a later set of divided shelves, with drawer to the base and on shaped feet, last quarter 18th Century, restorations to decoration
57in. (145cm.) wide, 72in. (182cm.) high, 21in. (53cm.) deep
Lot Essay
For a discussion of closely related painted furniture see Franz C. Lipp, OBER OSTERREICHISCHE BAUERN MOBEL, Vienna 1986