拍品 230
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AN AUSTRIAN NEOCLASSIC, EBONIZED PARCEL-GILT SATINWOOD AND PENWORK-DECORATED SECRETAIRE
AN AUSTRIAN NEOCLASSIC, EBONIZED PARCEL-GILT SATINWOOD AND PENWORK-DECORATED SECRETAIRE

CIRCA 1820

细节
AN AUSTRIAN NEOCLASSIC, EBONIZED PARCEL-GILT SATINWOOD AND PENWORK-DECORATED SECRETAIRE
Circa 1820
With rectangular top above a satinwood-lined frieze drawer over a fall-front enclosing a central open compartment with a mirrored back, stencilled to represent a checker-inlaid stage and flaming tripods within an arched facade with columnar uprights and decorated with scrolls and masks, with seven various drawers, above a pair of doors, the tapering angles headed by female heads and decorated with husk trails, on rectangular stepped feet, the interior possibly originally with a further drawer
58in. (149cm.) high, 35in. (89cm.) wide, 18in. (47cm.) deep

拍品专文

The intricate, classically-inspired penwork decoration on the upright angles and interior of this secretaire demonstrate the distinguishing Biedermeier preference for exploiting the natural substance of wood in furniture production. Another secretaire with related classical penwork embellishment is illustrated in A. Wilkie, Biedermeier, New York, 1987, p. 70, fig. 53.