A BIEDERMEIER WALNUT SETTEE

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Details

A BIEDERMEIER WALNUT SETTEE
second quarter 19th century
The arched padded back upholstered in beige striped silk flanked by outscrolled arms with spiral-carved uprights on similarly carved outcurved legs
85¾in. (127.5cm.) long

Lot Essay

This settee can be related to a design by a Mainz cabinet-maker Wilhelm Kembel and published in Journal für Möbelschreiner of 1835/37(see R. Stratmann-Döhler and W. Wiese, Möbel für den Fürstenhof, 1994, p. 93, figs. 7 and 8)