LATE 17TH CENTUIRY

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A GERMAN PEWTER AND BRASS-INLAID WALNUT AND BOULLE MARQUETRY WRITING TABLE
LATE 17TH CENTUIRY
The rectangular hinged top inlaid with interlaced bands, the reverse inlaid with a central cartouche of jousting knights, beneath ducal crowns flanked by ribbon-bound foliate sprays, within foliate and interlaced borders, above an interior fitted with a leather-lined writing slide enclosing a divided well and flanked by hidden drawers, on spirally turned supports joined by arched and moulded stretchers, on carved bun feet, restorations to legs and stretchers, the lock lacking and with a later catch
31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 31 in. (79 cm.) wide; 19½ in. (49 cm.) deep

Provenance

Marquis d'Avenne.

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Lot Essay

The hinged top with its armorial as well as lozenge- and auricular-form inlay in richly figured walnut suggests a Brunswick origin. A related desk, made for Duke Anton-Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, is inlaid with the date 1694 and now in the Kunstgewerbe Museum Berlin. Giles Ellwood illustrates related desks from Brunswick in 'Three Brunswick Desks', Furniture History, vol. XXXV, 1999, pp.42-50.

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