拍品 116
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A NORTH GERMAN WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT BUREAU-CABINET with moulded scrolled broken pediment cornice above a door between canted angles, with rectangular bevelled plate and frame carved with acanthus scrolls, the interior with three shelves and three drawers, the bombé base with two short and three graduated long drawers between keeled angles on waved bracket feet, mid-18th Century, the interior drawers later

细节
A NORTH GERMAN WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT BUREAU-CABINET with moulded scrolled broken pediment cornice above a door between canted angles, with rectangular bevelled plate and frame carved with acanthus scrolls, the interior with three shelves and three drawers, the bombé base with two short and three graduated long drawers between keeled angles on waved bracket feet, mid-18th Century, the interior drawers later
42in. (107cm.) wide; 89in. (226cm.) high; 21in. (33cm.) deep

拍品专文

Its bombé form, richly scrolled pediment and door incorporating a flowered and assymetrically-scrolled cartouche 'pier-glass' is typical of the Spiegelschatulle produced by Johann Jacob (d.1782), who established his 'Mirror and Cabinet-making manufactory' at Altona, in the mid-18th Century. Altona near Hamburg was then under the control of King Christian VII of Denmark (d.1808), A. -I Kratz, Altonaer Mobel.., Hamburg, 1988, fig. 35b.