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Lot 416 Property Formerly in the Collection of Dr. Anton C.R. Dreesmann
A LOUIS XV KINGWOOD AND TULIPWOOD DOUBLE-SIDED SECRETAIRE A ABBATANT
BY JOSEPH FUERSTEIN, CIRCA 1750
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Joseph Feuerstein, maître in 1767.
This secretaire has the unusual feature of two fall-fronts, each enclosing a fitted interior, and was probably conceived to be placed in the middle of a room, or with one of the sides against a wall. While double-sided secretaires of this type are virtually unknown, we do know a small number of bureaux à double faces. The most celebrated example of this type is undoubtedly the magnificent bureau by BVRB from the collections of fermier général François Balthazar Dangé and subsequently the Dukes of Argyll, which is now in the J. Paul Getty Museum (C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, p. 36, fig. 41).
This secretaire has the unusual feature of two fall-fronts, each enclosing a fitted interior, and was probably conceived to be placed in the middle of a room, or with one of the sides against a wall. While double-sided secretaires of this type are virtually unknown, we do know a small number of bureaux à double faces. The most celebrated example of this type is undoubtedly the magnificent bureau by BVRB from the collections of fermier général François Balthazar Dangé and subsequently the Dukes of Argyll, which is now in the J. Paul Getty Museum (C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, p. 36, fig. 41).