A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY TABLE A OUVRAGE

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHANN-FRIEDRICH AND HEINRICH WILHELM SPINDLER, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY TABLE A OUVRAGE
Attributed to Johann-Friedrich and Heinrich Wilhelm Spindler, Mid-18th Century
The scallop-shaped moulded top inlaid with a guilloche centred by flowers and surrounded by scrolling foliage, enclosing a fitted interior above a writing-slide, the side drawer with fitted interior, the front, back and sides further inlaid with cartouches of flowers, on cabriole legs headed by foliate mounts with husk-trails joined by a square tray-stretcher inlaid with a quarter-veneered cartouche, on foliate sabots
15 in. (38 cm.) wide; 29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 10½ in. (26.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This hinged-top work-table, with its scalloped and crescent-scrolled top, serpentined frame, flowered tablets compartmented interior and rimmed stretcher-tray, is closely related to that formerly in the Neues Palais, Potsdam. The latter branded with the Neues-Palais inventory mark, was supplied by the cabinet-makers Johann Friedrich Spindler (b. 1726) and Heirich Wilhelm Spindler (b. 1738) who were established in Potsdam in 1763 and furnished the Neues Palais from 1766 (H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des Deutschen Mobels vol II, Munich 1970, fig 797).

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