LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND AMARANTH PARQUETRY BUREAU
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The upper section with a shaped frieze of drawers centered with a seated lady and a putto, flanked by two pairs of doors each enclosing one shelf, one side surmounted by a clock and the other side with a barometer, both mounted with nesting birds, Flore and Zephyr, each holding two candle branches, the top of the lower section with brown leather writing surface, above a frieze of drawers on cabriole legs with espagnolettes and claw feet
67 in. (170 cm.) high, 70 in. (178 cm.) wide, 32 in. (81 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This exuberantly-decorated desk is closely related to a bureau-vitrine offered at Christie’s, New York, on 10 October 2001, lot 235, and further illustrated in Christopher Payne's book, European Furniture of the 19th Century, Woodbridge, 2013, p. 297. The work emulates early 1880's furniture produced by Joseph-Emmanuel Zweiner. Payne remarks Franco-German cabinetmakers may have been ‘looking toward Zweiner’s work while fabricating furniture for Ludwig II at Herrenchiemsee’ (op cit. p. 296).

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