VIENNA, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, ADAPTED IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY

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AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED, MAHOGANY AND PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY SERRE-BIJOUX
VIENNA, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, ADAPTED IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular shaped hinged top with canted angles, and pierced frieze with trailing vine motif enclosing a well, above two doors with ribbed borders and each centered by a ribbon-tied foliate wreath, revealing six mahogany-lined drawers, the sides conformingly mounted, above stiff-leaf and pearl mouldings, on square tapering legs joined by a concave-fronted three-quarter galleried undertier, and terminating in square sabots, the drawers and hinged mechanism of the top probably of later date, the sides originally hinged, the left side signed and dated to the inside 'Franz Sontag - 1894' (probably the restorer and date of the restoration work), some mouldings missing
37¼ in. (94.5 cm.) high; 26½ in. (67.5 cm.) wide; 14¼ in. (36 cm.) deep

Provenance

Probably commissioned or executed for Napoléon II, Roi de Rome, duke of Reichstadt (1811-1832).
Hofburg, Vienna, until 1875.

Literature

Catalogue 'Exposition des Souvenirs du Roi de Rome', Paris, 1932, p.70, n.214.

Exhibited

'Exposition des souvenirs du Roi de Rome', Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1932.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Napoleon II, duke of Reichstadt (March 20, 1811 - July 22, 1832), son of Napoléon Bonaparte and second wife, Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, was briefly the second Emperor of the French.
Known from birth as the King of Rome, he had a very short-lived regime after the numerous abdications of his father, the last one being in June 1815. Virtually captive in Austria from 1815, the young Prince was awarded the title of Duke of Reichstadt in 1818, but died at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna on July 1832.

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