Sale 8512
New York, Park Avenue
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30 - 31 October 1996
Price realised
USD 4,025
Estimate
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
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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)
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