AN AUSTRIAN BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CHEST, the canted rectangular top with moulded edge above three graduated long drawers, the angles headed by laurel-wreaths and on square tapering legs and foliate caps

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AN AUSTRIAN BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CHEST, the canted rectangular top with moulded edge above three graduated long drawers, the angles headed by laurel-wreaths and on square tapering legs and foliate caps
38¼in. (97cm.) wide; 37in. (94cm.) high; 21¼in. (54cm.) deep
Provenance
Supplied to the Auersperg family for Palais Auersperg, Vienna in the early 19th Century.

Moved to their hunting retreat in the second half of the 19th Century
Literature
J. Folnesics, Innenräume und Hausrat der Empire - und Biedermeierzeit in Österreich-Ungarn, Vienna, 1917, p. 6, ill. 38.

G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, vol. 3, Munich, 1973, p. 349, ill. 348

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