CIRCA 1659

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A SWISS IRON-MOUNTED WALLNUT, MAPLE AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY WEDDING BUFFET
CIRCA 1659
Overall decorated with carved pilasters, niches and architectural ornaments and inlaid with various scrolling foliage and geometrical patterns, the rectangular moulded cornice, carved with egg-and-dart border, above a panelled frieze inscibed Claus Wickli VMD Sara Laseri and dated 1659, surmounting three cupboard doors, inlaid with a bird, horseman and nobleman, above an openworked section with four drawers, centered by a pewter lined niche with water container and basin, the lower section with nine darwers and two doors, on a breakfront moulded plinth
79½ in. (247 cm.) high x 111 in. (282 cm.) wide x 21 in. (52 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

For comparable buffets see T. Loertscher, Zürcher und Nordschweizer Möbel, Zürich, 2005, pl. 130, 131 and D. Kisluk-Grosheide, European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven and London 2006, no. 8, pp. 26-27.

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