Lot Essay
A related secretaire of similar narrow unusual proportions, also divided by tambour shutters was sold in these rooms 30 June 2004, lot 232.
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LATE 18TH CENTURY
Details
A Dutch gilt-bronze-mounted tulipwood, walnut, fruitwood and japanese lacquer secretaire a abattant
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Banded overal and inlaid with simulated quarter-veneered panels the canted top above a frieze drawer and a hinged fallfront, decorated with a central ribbon-tied roundel depicting a landscape and a gilt-tooled green leather-lined writing surface to the reverse, enclosing a fitted interior with four drawers and eight adjustable shelves, above a pair of tambour shutters enclosing two drawers, above a panelled door enclosing a plain interior with four adjustable shelves
147 cm. high x 58 cm. wide x 39 cm. deep
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Banded overal and inlaid with simulated quarter-veneered panels the canted top above a frieze drawer and a hinged fallfront, decorated with a central ribbon-tied roundel depicting a landscape and a gilt-tooled green leather-lined writing surface to the reverse, enclosing a fitted interior with four drawers and eight adjustable shelves, above a pair of tambour shutters enclosing two drawers, above a panelled door enclosing a plain interior with four adjustable shelves
147 cm. high x 58 cm. wide x 39 cm. deep
Special notice
Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.