A NORTH GERMAN MAHOGANY BUREAU-CABINET

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A NORTH GERMAN MAHOGANY BUREAU-CABINET
Early 19th Century
The triangular concave pediment above a shaped door enclosing two shelves, flanked by two doors enclosing one shelf each, above a roll- top enclosing a fitted interior with a central door flanked by ebonised pillars and three boxwood-inlaid drawers simulating arches and a further three drawers some with fitted baize-lined interiors, above a leather-lined hinged writing-surface revealing a well flanked by a further well above a false drawer, the lower section with three long graduated drawers on a plinth base and bracket feet, possibly Danish
44½ in. (113 cm.) wide; 89 in. (226 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This bureau-cabinet, with its elegantly waved cabinet on a cylinder-bureau, is related to a secrétaire-cabinet executed in 1818 by the Copenhagen-based cabinet-maker Peter Arent Mohr (d. 1828), who became a master cabinet-maker in 1808 (A. Jepsen, Signerede danske möbler, Herning, 1979, pp. 33-35) and further to a north German cabinet of circa 1820 illustrated in Prof. R. Haaff, Das Süddeutsche Biedermeier, Westheim, 1991, p. 383, fig. 966. A further, closely related bureau-cabinet was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 26 November 1996, lot 178.

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