A VIENNESE ORMOLU AND ENAMEL-MOUNTED EBONIZED CABINET-ON-STAND
Lot 428 PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN COLLECTION

A VIENNESE ORMOLU AND ENAMEL-MOUNTED EBONIZED CABINET-ON-STAND

LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed19 April 2012

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USD 98,500

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A VIENNESE ORMOLU AND ENAMEL-MOUNTED EBONIZED CABINET-ON-STAND
LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Decorated allover with rectangular, circular and variously shaped plaques painted with mythological scenes, the balustrade gallery centered by a Bacchante and putto, the corners set with music-making putti, above a rectangular frieze and pair of cupboard doors opening to six drawers each set with circular 'Zodiac' roundels, above a central fall-front, the interior fitted with a leather writing surface and with an interior centered by a compartment flanked to each side by a pair of drawers, over a frieze drawer, on circular tapering legs joined by a stretcher centered by a dual-handled urn and flanked by recumbent lions, with bun feet
88 in. (223.5 cm) high, 41¾ in. (106 cm.) wide, 28½ in. (72.5 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 June 1983, lot 315.

Specialist note

A cabinet of similar form was sold Christie's, Maria Félix: La Dona, 17-18 July 2007, lot 25 ($132,000). Another example is illustrated C. Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, Woodbridge, 1981, p. 142.