Lot 196
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AN AUSTRIAN BRASS-INLAID AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CHIFFONIER crossbanded overall in ebonised wood, the superstructure with rectangular top and moulded cornice above a pair of shelves and three lozenge-inlaid satin birch-line drawers with lion-mask and ring-handles flanked by columns, the pull-out writing-surface inset with a rectangular panel above a satin birch-lined drawer and two further shelves, the lower concave-fronted, between scrolled angles and on square tapering legs and foliate caps, early 19th Century

Details
AN AUSTRIAN BRASS-INLAID AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CHIFFONIER crossbanded overall in ebonised wood, the superstructure with rectangular top and moulded cornice above a pair of shelves and three lozenge-inlaid satin birch-line drawers with lion-mask and ring-handles flanked by columns, the pull-out writing-surface inset with a rectangular panel above a satin birch-lined drawer and two further shelves, the lower concave-fronted, between scrolled angles and on square tapering legs and foliate caps, early 19th Century
26¾in. (68cm.) wide; 49½in. (126cm.) high; 16½in. (42cm.) 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. 38.

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

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