Sale 8512
New York, Park Avenue
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30 - 31 October 1996
Price realised
USD 9,200
Estimate
A PAIR OF BIEDERMEIER WALNUT EBONIZED AND PARCEL-GILT ARMOIRES Each with rectangular overhanging cornice and egg-and-dart frieze, over a cabinet door inset with pierced radiating arched panel over a square panel with egg-and-dart border, flanked by leaftip and egg-and-dart headed columnar uprights enclosing shelves, on gadrooned paw-feet, with printed paper label Marein St. Lorenzen K.K. priv. Südbahn-Gesellschaft steyfemühl Juli 1917 71in. (180cm.) high, 38½in. (98cm.) wide, 24in. (61cm.) deep (2)
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