Lot Essay
This bureau can be attributed to the Mainz Hofschreiner Heinrich Ludwig Rohde (1683-1755) based on the comparison with a bureau in Schloss Pommersfelden which has an identical decorative scheme with slight variations in materials and execution. Rohde's work is identifieable from a group of furniture he executed for the Electors Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg, Philipp Karl von Eltz and finally Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein (H. Zinnkann, Meisterstücke Mainzer Möbel des 18. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt, 1988, pp. 13-19).
Rodhe can first be traced in Mainz in 1715, and initially collaborated with the Franconian cabinet-maker Ferdinand Plitzner (1678-1724), who executed furniture for Schloss Pommersfelden, seat of the Schönborn family. Cf, G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels,vol. II, Munich, 1973, pl. 265.
Rodhe can first be traced in Mainz in 1715, and initially collaborated with the Franconian cabinet-maker Ferdinand Plitzner (1678-1724), who executed furniture for Schloss Pommersfelden, seat of the Schönborn family. Cf, G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels,vol. II, Munich, 1973, pl. 265.