a german walnut and mahogany bureau-cabinet

18TH CENTURY

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a german walnut and mahogany bureau-cabinet
18th Century
The shaped moulded cresting centred by a leather panel above a pair of arched mirrored doors and above two small drawers, the shaped hinged crossbanded slope enclosing a fitted interior with a central compartment flanked by two pigeon-holes and two small drawers, the serpentine base with three long drawers and canted sides, on cabriole legs
252cm. high x 115cm. wide x 55cm. deep

Lot Essay

The design for a related bureau-cabinet by Johann Philipp Joseph Alffer, dated 1762, is illustrated in H. Reber, Der Schreibschrank des Peter Schuß von 1763 im Landesmuseum Mainz, Berlin, 1992, p. 27, fig. 8.

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