A SOUTH GERMAN MAPLE, WALNUT AND FRUITWOOD BUREAU-CABINET

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A SOUTH GERMAN MAPLE, WALNUT AND FRUITWOOD BUREAU-CABINET
Mid-18th Century
Banded overall, of arbalette-shape, the top section centred by a door with a moulded pediment and flanked by three short drawers to each side, each section with a locking device, above a long drawer simulated as three drawers, the fall-front enclosing an open compartment and four short drawers and two hidden drawers, flanked by two further short drawers, the lower section with three long shaped drawers on turned ball feet, losses to veneer and mouldings, one drawer lacking left liner, restorations

Sale room notice

The measurements are:
73 in. (187 cm.) high; 50 in. (129 cm.) wide; 28 in. (72 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A similar bureau-cabinet was sold anonymously at Sotheby's, New York, 20 March 1998, lot 178. A further closely related Austrian bureau-cabinet is illustrated in H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Mbels, Munich, 1970, vol. II, fig. 401.

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