EARLY 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY VIENNA

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(2) A PAIR OF AUSTRIAN KINGWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND WALNUT CHESTS-ON-STAND
EARLY 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY VIENNA
Each of D-shaped outline, with recessed quadrant angles, the chevron-veneered crossbanded top with moulded cornice and plain frieze above four graduated featherbanded and quarter-veneered walnut-lined drawers, each with a brass foliate escutcheon with eagle supporters, the stand with three walnut-lined frieze drawers, on hexagonal tapering legs headed by amaranth capitals, joined by a D-shaped stretcher, on hexagonal amaranth feet, one with Museum inventory number '*1589', the other with '*1590' painted on the reverse
124 cm. high x 75.5 cm. wide x 38.5 cm. deep (2)

Provenance

Baron Rudolf von Gutmann (1880-1966).
Thence by descent.

Exhibited

Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria.

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Lot Essay

Embellished with precious feathered kingwood veneers, these unusual cabinets-on-stand relate to a drawing for a marquetry Schreibschrank, which was probably executed in Austria around 1725 (H. Kreisel, G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1970, vol. II, fig 384). In form and construction, they relate to a number of cabinets and bureaux decorated in Boulle technique, which were executed in Vienna in the early 18th Century. These include a bureau in the Schlossmuseum in Linz, which, interestingly, also has the unusual feature of six legs (ibid., fig. 396), and a games table in the collection of the princes of Salm-Salm at Schloss Anholt, which is illustrated in A. Vliegenthart, Boulle Möbel des Fürsten Salm, Emmerich, 1995, pp. 16-17, figs. 11-12.

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