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JOSEF FRANK (1885-1967)
Lot 128 Property from the Collection of Norah and Norman Stone

JOSEF FRANK (1885-1967)

'Flora' Cabinet, Model No. 852, designed circa 1937

Closed8 June 2023

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JOSEF FRANK (1885-1967)
'Flora' Cabinet, Model No. 852, designed circa 1937
manufactured by Svenskt Tenn, Stockholm
mahogany, lithograph printed paper, brass
55 3/16 x 45 1/2 x 16 15⁄16 in. (140.1 x 115.6 x 43 cm)

Antik / Hostler Burrows, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004

Specialist note

The exterior is adorned with illustrations from Danish botanist Carl Hansen Ostenfeld's Bilder ur Nordens Flora (1905). Ostenfeld served as the director of the Copenhagen Botanical Garden and taught botany at the University of Copenhagen. An avid explorer, Ostenfeld traveled outside of Denmark to explore flora and fauna in Iceland, Greenland, the British Isles, Ireland, and Australia.