AN AUSTRIAN IRON-MOUNTED FRUITWOOD AND OAK MARQUETRY CHEST
Lot 122

AN AUSTRIAN IRON-MOUNTED FRUITWOOD AND OAK MARQUETRY CHEST

19TH CENTURY INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS

Closed1 April 2008

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EUR 5,000

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AN AUSTRIAN IRON-MOUNTED FRUITWOOD AND OAK MARQUETRY CHEST
19TH CENTURY INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS
The rectangular moulded panelled top enclosing an interior fitted with a lidded compartment and with shaped and engraved lock plate and hinges, the panelled front with two niches inlaid with bell-towers flanked by further architectural panels, on a moulded plinth base and block feet, with rectangular paper label inscribed VADUZ/Obj.-Nr. 38/Inv.Nr. 1738 and with a brass plaque stamped 3209
66 cm. high x 176 cm. wide x 68 cm. deep

Schloss Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 1945.
Vienna, 2006.

Specialist note

For a comparable chest see W. Trachsler, Möbel der Frührenaissance aus der deutschsprachigen Schweiz, Bern, 1978, pl. 19.