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Lot 1769 Dα

A Frankfurt walnut cabinet

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 6.250 € (incl. premium)

A Frankfurt walnut cabinet

Burr walnut veneer on softwood corpus, solid walnut, brass and wrought iron mountings. Angular cabinet with protruding gable and corresponding base resting on five bun feet. The two doors and the front ornamented with deep concave and convex mouldings. The lock and lock plate finely engraved with strapwork and tendrils. With older restorations, for example over vertical shrinkage cracks to the sides. The feet replaced. In optically pristine condition. H 226, W 237, D 86 cm.
First half 18th C.

Literature

Cf. Colsman, Möbel Gotik bis Jugendstil. Die Sammlung im Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne 1999, cat. no. 120.
Cf. Klein/Krutisch, Schränke und Kommoden 1650 - 1800 im Germanischen Nationalmuseum. Bestandskatalog Teil 1, Ostfildern 2015, cat. 9, p. 76 ff.