A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT, AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, STAINED FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY LECTERN

MID-18TH CENTURY

Closed27 January 2021

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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT, AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, STAINED FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY LECTERN
MID-18TH CENTURY
With rectangular brass-bound crossbanded reading stand centrally inlaid with an ecclesiastical crest in green stained and incised wood on cabriole legs ending in scrolling foliate sabots
15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) high, 18 ½ in. (47 cm.) wide, 13 in. (33 cm.) deep

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Inlaid with the arms of the Franconian city of Eschenbach, now Wolframs-Eschenbach, about twenty-five miles south of Nuremberg. The miter and the crosier suggest that this lectern was used in an ecclesiastical interior or a domestic interior of a high-ranking member of the church.

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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT, AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, STAINED FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY LECTERN

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