AN ANGLO-GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED, ROSEWOOD AND WALNUT BUREAU-CABINET DRESDEN, FIRST QUARTER 18TH
Details
The arched top with a concave cornice above a door inset with a bevelled mirror plate and gilt foliate border, which opens to reveal an arrangement of seventeen crossbanded drawers and a central door, above a further long drawer, the chamfered angles with columns with foliate scrolling capitals, the lower section with a crossbanded fall-front bureau which opens to reveal an arrangement of eight short and one long drawer above two short and three long drawers, on ogee bracket feet 87 in. (221 cm.) high; 38 in. (96.5 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 April 1985, lot 138. Acquired from Hotspur Ltd., 1985.
Literature
G. Hause, Dresdener Mobel des 18. Jahrhunderts, 1983, p. 280, no. 76.
Meisterwerke des 18. Und 19. Jahrhunderts: Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden in Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden, 1996, pp. 62- 63. M. A. Radecke, ‘Englische Kabinette' made in 18th Century Germany, 2000, p. 60, no. 15.
Lot Essay
This bureau cabinet demonstrates the fascinating exchange between English and German cabinet-makers in the early 18th century as well as the influence of English models at the court of Saxony. A virtually identical cabinet, perhaps the pair to the present lot, is preserved at Schloss Pillnitz near Dresden.
Details
The arched top with a concave cornice above a door inset with a bevelled mirror plate and gilt foliate border, which opens to reveal an arrangement of seventeen crossbanded drawers and a central door, above a further long drawer, the chamfered angles with columns with foliate scrolling capitals, the lower section with a crossbanded fall-front bureau which opens to reveal an arrangement of eight short and one long drawer above two short and three long drawers, on ogee bracket feet 87 in. (221 cm.) high; 38 in. (96.5 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 April 1985, lot 138. Acquired from Hotspur Ltd., 1985.
Literature
G. Hause, Dresdener Mobel des 18. Jahrhunderts, 1983, p. 280, no. 76.
Meisterwerke des 18. Und 19. Jahrhunderts: Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden in Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden, 1996, pp. 62- 63. M. A. Radecke, ‘Englische Kabinette' made in 18th Century Germany, 2000, p. 60, no. 15.
Lot Essay
This bureau cabinet demonstrates the fascinating exchange between English and German cabinet-makers in the early 18th century as well as the influence of English models at the court of Saxony. A virtually identical cabinet, perhaps the pair to the present lot, is preserved at Schloss Pillnitz near Dresden.
