A PAIR OF AUSTRIAN BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND EBONISED SIDE CABINETS, each with rectangular top above a panelled frieze drawer flanked by entwined foliate mouldings, the recessed lower part with a pair of panelled doors enclosing an oak-lined interior with two shelves flanked by fluting pilasters headed by volutes, on plinth base, early 19th Century

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A PAIR OF AUSTRIAN BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND EBONISED SIDE CABINETS, each with rectangular top above a panelled frieze drawer flanked by entwined foliate mouldings, the recessed lower part with a pair of panelled doors enclosing an oak-lined interior with two shelves flanked by fluting pilasters headed by volutes, on plinth base, early 19th Century
43in. (109cm.) wide; 47¼in. (120cm.) high; 20in. (51cm.) deep (2)
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. 46.

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

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