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Lot 976 Dα

A secretary desk with Pallas Athena in a medallion

Auction 1075 - overview Cologne
18.11.2016, 17:00 - Selected Works
Estimate: 25.000 € - 30.000 €

A secretary desk with Pallas Athena in a medallion

Walnut, maple, ebonised and giltwood, satinwood, painted softwood, mirror, gilt metal mountings, iron hinges. The crowning tympanon bearing a painted medallion inscribed "die Weisheit" (the wisdom), below this one drawer above a central fall - concealing seven drawers and a central mirrored compartment - flanked by female caryatids, above a two-doored cabinet on tapered square-section feet. Restored. H 171, W 85, D 41 cm.
Attributed to Vienna, 1st third 19th C.

Literature

For this type of caryatid cf.: Haaff, Biedermeiermöbel, Germersheim, 2006, no. 710.