LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A VIENNESE GILT-METAL AND ENAMEL-MOUNTED EBONISED SECRETAIRE-CABINET
LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Decorated all over with shaped plaques depicting mythological scenes, the balustraded top mounted with urns to the front corners, over a pair of cupboard doors opening to an interior fitted with six drawers, above a slant-front writing surface enclosing a compartment flanked to each side by a pair of drawers, over a frieze drawer, on circular tapering legs jointed by a stretcher
74 in. (188 cm.) high; 43 ¼ in. (110 cm.) wide; 26 ¾ in. (68 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Two similar cabinets have recently appeared at auction: the first from the collection of Maria Felix sold Christie’s, New York, 17-18 July 2007, lot 401 ($132,000) and the second sold Christie’s, New York, 18-19 April 2012, lot 428 ($98,500). A third is illustrated in C. Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, Woodbridge, 1981, p. 142.

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