THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
(Lots 218-220)
AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND FIGURED WALNUT BERGERE, the rounded cartouche-shaped padded back, sides and seat covered in florally-striped cream material, the back headed by foliate-entwined arrows, with outscrolled arms and on a solid X-shaped base edged with brass moulding and centred by an associated pressed-metal mount, early 19th Century
Details
AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND FIGURED WALNUT BERGERE, the rounded cartouche-shaped padded back, sides and seat covered in florally-striped cream material, the back headed by foliate-entwined arrows, with outscrolled arms and on a solid X-shaped base edged with brass moulding and centred by an associated pressed-metal mount, early 19th Century
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
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. 43
G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, vol. 3, Munich, 1973, p. 349, ill. 348
G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, vol. 3, Munich, 1973, p. 349, ill. 348