Live Auction 14227The Collector: Silver,19th Century Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art
AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU AND ENAMEL-MOUNTED EBONY AND EBONISED BUREAU CABINET-ON-STAND
Lot 485 Important 19th Century Furniture & Works of Art from a Private Collection (Lots 481-486)

AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU AND ENAMEL-MOUNTED EBONY AND EBONISED BUREAU CABINET-ON-STAND

VIENNA, CIRCA 1880

Closed16 November 2017

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GBP 65,000

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AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU AND ENAMEL-MOUNTED EBONY AND EBONISED BUREAU CABINET-ON-STAND
VIENNA, CIRCA 1880
Surmounted by a bacchante and putto over two doors set with panels with mythological scenes and opening to a fitted interior set with six drawers mounted with painted panels representing the months, above a drop-front desk with gilt-tooled leather writing surface and two drawers, over a compartmentalized frieze drawer, on four legs joined by a stretcher
87 in. (221 cm.) high; 42 in. (106.5 cm.) wide; 28 ½ in. (72.5 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 June 1983, lot 315.
Property from a European Collection; Christie's, New York, 18-19 April 2012, lot 428.

Specialist note

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