Lot 177
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AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND EBONISED SETTEE banded overall, the shaped rectangular padded back, sides and seat covered in florally-striped cream material, the toprail centred by a tablet with a mount of figures music-making, the sides with eagle's-heads finials, on square tapering legs headed by blocks and foliate panels, with foliate caps, two finials repaired, the toprail-mount signed DETLER, early 19th Century

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AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND EBONISED SETTEE banded overall, the shaped rectangular padded back, sides and seat covered in florally-striped cream material, the toprail centred by a tablet with a mount of figures music-making, the sides with eagle's-heads finials, on square tapering legs headed by blocks and foliate panels, with foliate caps, two finials repaired, the toprail-mount signed DETLER, early 19th Century
79½in. (202cm.) wide
Provenance
Supplied to the Auersperg family for Palais Auersperg, Vienna in the early 19th Century.

Moved to their hunting retreat in the second half of the 19th Century
Literature
J. Folnesics, Innenräume und Hausrat der Empire - und Biedermeierzeit in Österreich-Ungarn, Vienna, 1917, p. 6, ill. 37,38,39,42,45.

R G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, vol. 3, Munich, 1973, p. 349, ill. 348

Lot Essay

Franz Dettler's signed mounts were widely used in Austria and Germany. This particular example is illustrated on a chair made in Augsburg, circa 1820, now in the Städtisches Maximilianmuseum, Augsburg, in Georg Himmelheber, Biedermeier Furniture, London, 1973, ill. 36

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