Lot 179
179
AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE, the canted rectangular top crossbanded and inlaid with a central circle with a flowerhead amidst geometric lines, the panelled frieze with mahogany-lined frieze drawer enclosing trays and small drawers, flanked by foliate and scroll-mounts, square tapering legs joined by a concave-sided rectangular galleried undertier and on stepped feet, early 19th Century, repair to one front foot, the interior previously with writing slide and lacking one small tray

Details
AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE, the canted rectangular top crossbanded and inlaid with a central circle with a flowerhead amidst geometric lines, the panelled frieze with mahogany-lined frieze drawer enclosing trays and small drawers, flanked by foliate and scroll-mounts, square tapering legs joined by a concave-sided rectangular galleried undertier and on stepped feet, early 19th Century, repair to one front foot, the interior previously with writing slide and lacking one small tray
25in. (63.5cm.) wide; 28½in. (72.5cm.) high; 18in. (45.5cm.) deep
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.

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

Lot Essay

A writing table of related design was sold at Sotheby's London, 23 June 1978, Lot 595 from the Robert von Hirsch Collection.

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