Lot Essay
On the crossroads of nations, furniture from Liège combines typically French ornamentation with features which are generally associated with German furniture.
A related bookcase, with similar richly-figured veneers and star-inlays, originally from the abbey of Stavelot and now in the Musée d'Ansembourg, Liège, is illustrated in J. Philippe, Le meuble liègeois à son âge d'or, Liège, 1990, p. 140, fig. 252.
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A related bookcase, with similar richly-figured veneers and star-inlays, originally from the abbey of Stavelot and now in the Musée d'Ansembourg, Liège, is illustrated in J. Philippe, Le meuble liègeois à son âge d'or, Liège, 1990, p. 140, fig. 252.
See illustration