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    20th Century Decorative Arts

    Amsterdam

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    26 May 1999

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    Lot 218

    A lime wood sideboard

    DESIGNED BY GERRIT RIETVELD AND EXECUTED IN 1922

    Price realised

    NLG 46,808

    Estimate

    NLG 30,000 - NLG 40,000

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    A lime wood sideboard
    Designed by Gerrit Rietveld and executed in 1922
    A central drawer between two small squares ones with coromandel cube handles above a pair of doors
    76cm. high x 100cm. wide x 50cm. deep

    Provenance

    Gerrit Rietveld's sister, then by descent to the present owner

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    Lot Essay

    This unique piece seen for the first time is comparable to the Hartog desk, in a contemporary illustration of the Spreekkamer, reproduced in Marijke Kuper and Ida van Zijl, Gerrit Th. Rietveld 1888-1964, het volledige werk, Utrecht, 1992, p. 87, no. 59

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