Lot Essay
A very similar secretaire cabinet with solid base was sold Sotheby's London 20-27 May, 1988, lot 249
Title?
A GERMAN NEUWIED ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABBATANT, the superstructure with pierced galleried rectangular top with urn-shaped finials on column-supports on a later base, above a panelled fall-front decorated with mille-raies within a beaded moulding, enclosing a fitted interior with cedar-lined drawers between stop-fluted angles filled with chandelles below paterae, the base with one ash and oak-lined drawer on square tapering legs filled with mille-raies and joined by a concave-fronted stretcher, on pointed ormolu feet, late 18th Century
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A GERMAN NEUWIED ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABBATANT, the superstructure with pierced galleried rectangular top with urn-shaped finials on column-supports on a later base, above a panelled fall-front decorated with mille-raies within a beaded moulding, enclosing a fitted interior with cedar-lined drawers between stop-fluted angles filled with chandelles below paterae, the base with one ash and oak-lined drawer on square tapering legs filled with mille-raies and joined by a concave-fronted stretcher, on pointed ormolu feet, late 18th Century
30¾in. (78cm.) wide; 60¾in. (154cm.) high; 14½in. (37cm.) deep
30¾in. (78cm.) wide; 60¾in. (154cm.) high; 14½in. (37cm.) deep