AN AUSTRIAN BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, the canted rectangular top with moulded edge above a panelled frieze with sunflower and ring-handle, the panelled fall-front enclosing a fitted interior of drawers, pigeon-holes and a green baize-lined writing-surface above a pair of panelled doors inclosing a shelf, between canted fluted angles headed by entwined foliage and on foliate ormolu feet, early 19th Century, with later division between the two lower doors

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AN AUSTRIAN BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, the canted rectangular top with moulded edge above a panelled frieze with sunflower and ring-handle, the panelled fall-front enclosing a fitted interior of drawers, pigeon-holes and a green baize-lined writing-surface above a pair of panelled doors inclosing a shelf, between canted fluted angles headed by entwined foliage and on foliate ormolu feet, early 19th Century, with later division between the two lower doors
35¾in. (90/.5cm.) wide; 57.5½in. (146cm.) high; 17in. (43cm.) 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. 37,41.

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

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