BRAUNSCHWEIG, SECOND-QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GERMAN IVORY-INLAID WALNUT SCHRANK
Braunschweig, second-quarter 18th Century
Inlaid overall with ivory figures and foliage, the moulded stepped cornice above a conformingly shaped and moulded frieze and two rectangular doors with simulated panels, each centred by a female figure beneath a canopy and flanked by sphinxes, the reverse of the lock-plate engraved with a woman playing the lute, flanked by Corinthian pilasters, on a plinth base with simulated panelling, on shaped bun-feet
93 in. (236 cm.) high; 86 in. (219 cm.) wide; 30½ in. (77.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A bureau-cabinet from Brunschweig, circa 1750, inlaid with virtually identical figures and canopies, is illustrated in H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels, Munich 1970, vol. II, fig. 876.
A very similarly shaped and inlaid Schrank from the collection of The Honorable Mrs. James de Rothschild was sold in these Rooms, 15 July 1971, lot 73 for 4,500 gns.
Another ivory-inlaid Braunschweiger Schrank of the same time and with a nearly identical stepped cornice and similar plinths is now in the Reiss-Museum, Mannheim (Kreisel, ibid fig. 873).

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