A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONISED-WALNUT BUREAU PLAT

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONISED-WALNUT BUREAU PLAT
Mid-18th Century
The moulded top with inverted breakfront sides and rounded angles, banded and inset with a brown leather writing-surface, above three shaped drawers to one side and simulated drawers to the other and with a banded edge, the cabriole legs headed by a pierced C-scroll and foliate mount and terminating in C-scroll and foliate rocaille sabots, adapted in the 19th Century when the drawers were re-lined and originally with drawers to both sides
53½ in. (136 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74.5 cm.) high; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A related ebonised-walnut table, displaying a similarly distinctive pronounced, brass-bound waved apron was probably supplied by Johann August Nahl of Kassel circa 1755-60 for Schloss Fasanerie bei Fulda (illustrated in H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1970, fig.818).

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