DRESDEN, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A GERMAN PARCEL-GILT AND BLACK-JAPANNED OCCASIONAL TABLE
DRESDEN, MID-18TH CENTURY
Decorated overall with chinoiserie pagodas, the shaped rectangular tray top above a single frieze drawer and open compartment, on cabriole legs terminating in hoof feet; the drawer with old label 'Aus Schlossbergung / Schloss Dahlen / Krs Oschatz / Letzter Eigentuemor / No. 171', the underside inscribed 'N.8' in black ink'
31 in. (78.5 cm) high; 21 ½ in. (55 cm.) wide; 14 ½ in. (37 cm.) deep

Provenance

Count Heinrich von Bünau, Schloss Dahlen, Saxony.
The Property of a German Noble Family, Christie's London, 2 April 1998, lot 51.

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Lot Essay

The overall appearance of this bedside cabinet, with its bowed front and three-quarter shaped gallery centred by an image of a Chinese temple in a garden landscape, is closely related to that formerly at Schloss Moritzburg (G. Haase, Dresdner Möbel, Leipzig, 1983, p. 267, fig. 35).
Schloss Dahlen:
The present castle, built by count Heinrich von Bunau between 1744 and 1751 in a sobre, Baroque style, was almost certainly designed by either Friedrich August Krubsacius (1718-1789) the architect of Thalwitz and the Chamber of Deputies in Dresden, or Johann Christian Knöffel (1686-1752) architect of Nischwitz.

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