AN AUSTRIAN NEOCLASSIC, EBONIZED PARCEL-GILT SATINWOOD AND PENWORK-DECORATED SECRETAIRE
Circa 1820
With rectangular top above a satinwood-lined frieze drawer over a fall-front enclosing a central open compartment with a mirrored back, stencilled to represent a checker-inlaid stage and flaming tripods within an arched facade with columnar uprights and decorated with scrolls and masks, with seven various drawers, above a pair of doors, the tapering angles headed by female heads and decorated with husk trails, on rectangular stepped feet, the interior possibly originally with a further drawer
58in. (149cm.) high, 35in. (89cm.) wide, 18in. (47cm.) deep
AN AUSTRIAN NEOCLASSIC, EBONIZED PARCEL-GILT SATINWOOD AND PENWORK-DECORATED SECRETAIRE
Circa 1820
With rectangular top above a satinwood-lined frieze drawer over a fall-front enclosing a central open compartment with a mirrored back, stencilled to represent a checker-inlaid stage and flaming tripods within an arched facade with columnar uprights and decorated with scrolls and masks, with seven various drawers, above a pair of doors, the tapering angles headed by female heads and decorated with husk trails, on rectangular stepped feet, the interior possibly originally with a further drawer
58in. (149cm.) high, 35in. (89cm.) wide, 18in. (47cm.) deep