拍品专文
The arched lunette of the Grecian stepped cornice celebrates lyric poetry with its ormolu bas relief of Mercury attending Venus in the education of Cupid.
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CIRCA 1825-30, PROBABLY VIENNA
细节
AN AUSTRIAN BIEDERMEIER ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY, EBONISED, PENWORK AND MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
CIRCA 1825-30, PROBABLY VIENNA
The stepped cresting with ebonised segmental panel mounted with a figure of Learning and Cupid, enclosing a drawer, the frieze drawer above a hinged fall-front enclosing an elaborately fitted architectural interior with a green-leather lined writing-slide, the pigeon-holes, drawers and secret drawers forming an architectural façade with Gothic motifs and turned bone columns flanked by penwork depicting chivalrous knights, above three drawers and an ebonised plinth, on tapering feet
65¼ in. (165.5 cm.) high; 37¼ in. (94.5 cm.) wide; 20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) deep
CIRCA 1825-30, PROBABLY VIENNA
The stepped cresting with ebonised segmental panel mounted with a figure of Learning and Cupid, enclosing a drawer, the frieze drawer above a hinged fall-front enclosing an elaborately fitted architectural interior with a green-leather lined writing-slide, the pigeon-holes, drawers and secret drawers forming an architectural façade with Gothic motifs and turned bone columns flanked by penwork depicting chivalrous knights, above three drawers and an ebonised plinth, on tapering feet
65¼ in. (165.5 cm.) high; 37¼ in. (94.5 cm.) wide; 20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) deep
注意事项
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