AN AUSTRIAN NEOCLASSIC ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY BONHEUR DU JOUR

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AN AUSTRIAN NEOCLASSIC ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY BONHEUR DU JOUR
CIRCA 1800, VIENNESE

The superstructure with stepped pediment above a frieze drawer with female mounts above a hinged fall-front with a fitted yew wood-lined interior and racheted adjustable writing surface, the lower section with hinged slide enclosing a green leather writing surface with drawers above a frieze drawer on square tapering legs with splayed feet joined by an undertier-60in. (153cm.) high, 31in. (79cm.) wide, 25in. (63cm.) deep

拍品专文

A closely related writing table with nearly identical mounts, and similar distinctive interlaced stretchers is in the Österreichisches Musem für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, and is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue from the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, "Bürgersinn und Aufbegehren; Biedermeier und Vormärz in Wien, 1815-1848", 1987, p. 374.