Sale 8512
New York, Park Avenue
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30 - 31 October 1996
Price realised
USD 6,325
Estimate
AN AUSTRIAN NEOCLASSIC ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY WORK TABLE second quarter 19th century With a canted rectangular top cast with a laurel wreath enclosing a fitted interior, with a leaf-tip and anthemion frieze on S-scroll supports headed with swan's heads on four cabriole legs with paw sabots, lacks casters and work basket, with some later mounts 28¼in. (72cm.) high, 21¼in. (54cm.) wide, 17in. (44cm.) deep
Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, 26 October 1995, lot 215
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A closely related example was sold Sotheby's London, 10 December 1993, lot 328.
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