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    Sale 7433

    Important Early European Furniture, Sculpture and Tapestries

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    8 November 2007

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    • A SOUTH GERMAN WALNUT AND BURR
    Lot 220

    A SOUTH GERMAN WALNUT AND BURR-WALNUT ARMOIRE

    MID-17TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    GBP 8,750

    Estimate

    GBP 6,000 - GBP 10,000

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    A SOUTH GERMAN WALNUT AND BURR-WALNUT ARMOIRE
    MID-17TH CENTURY
    The rectangular moulded cornice above a frieze carved with female masks and fruiting sprays, above a pair of doors each with architectural portico panels headed by scroll pediments centred by a male and a female mask respectively, above a shell-headed panel, flanked and divided by spirally-turned pilasters, the similarly panelled base carved with grotesque masks, above bun feet
    95 in. (242 cm.) high; 78 in. (198 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep

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    THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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