A DANISH MAHOGANY BUREAU-CABINET

EARLY 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF PETER ARENT MOHR

細節

A DANISH MAHOGANY BUREAU-CABINET
Early 19th Century, in the manner of Peter Arent Mohr
The arched pediment flanked by paterae above a moulded cornice and panelled frieze, the serpentine door enclosing three adjustable shelves flanked by two convex-fronted doors enclosing one adjustable shelf, above a concave-fronted drawer, the counterbalance rolltop enclosing a fitted interior with fruitwood lines and one central door flanked by three drawers and two further smaller drawers, one with carved arched panel, the green baize-lined writing-slide flanked by two sliding panels revealing wells, above three long graduated drawers, on a moulded plinth and on later block feet, with indistinctly inscribed labels to the interior
49 in. (124.5 cm.) wide; 85 in. (216 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

來源

Aquired by Rasmus Langeland (1770-1829), Quartermaster to the Danish Navy.
Thence by descent.

出版

H. Hayward, et al., World Furniture, London, 1965, p. 261.

拍品專文

This secretaire-cabinet is designed in the French antique manner and comprises a cylinder top bureau surmounted by an elegantly serpentined cabinet. A central concave-fronted cabinet is buttressed by convex-fronted cabinets, whose veneer forms drapery figuring, while a Grecian palm-flower is figured in the arched cornice. Its architecture and fine veneer corresponds to that of a secretaire-cabinet with Grecian-stepped pediment, executed in 1818 by the Copenhagen cabinet-maker Peter Arent Mohr (d. 1828), who became a master cabinet-maker in 1808. Like the latter, this cabinet may have originally featured Etruscan-scrolled feet (A. Jepsen, Signerede danske möbler, Herning, 1979, pp. 33-35). A design featuring a cabinet with stepped cornice was published in February 1800 as pl. 9 in the fashion magazine Sammlung von Zeichnungen der neuesten Londner und Pariser Meubles als Muster für Tischler, Leipzig.