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Lot 396 D‡α

A German cabinet with unusual marquetry

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
17.11.2022, 14:30 - Decorative Arts - Sculpture Bronze Furniture Textiles
Estimate: 8.000 € - 9.000 €
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A German cabinet with unusual marquetry

Elm, maple, boxwood, green tinted ivory inlays on softwood, solid oak, ormolu mountings. A deux corps. Two-door base cabinet, sloping drop front writing surface concealing compartments and drawers. Two-door top beneath a trapezoid gable, fitted with 15 drawers surrounding a central compartment, the 16th drawer lost. All exterior faces and the cabinet door finely decorated with flower vases, flower baskets and parrots on branches in cartouche surrounds. Signs of wear, shrinkage cracks, older repairs, locks replaced, missing drawers. H 194, W 107, D 52 cm.
Central German, third quarter 18th C.

Certificate

Sales permit for the EU internal market available.

Provenance

From Hesse-Darmstadt property.

Literature

Cf. Schmitz, Deutsche Möbel des Barock und Rokoko, Stuttgart 1923, p. 204 for a piece with similarly fine inlays formerly housed in Zeitlos Palace in Lower Franconia.