拍品 158
158
A GERMAN WALNUT SERPENTINE KNEEHOLE DESK
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A GERMAN WALNUT SERPENTINE KNEEHOLE DESK

MID-18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY DRESDEN

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A GERMAN WALNUT SERPENTINE KNEEHOLE DESK
MID-18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY DRESDEN
With a leather-lined top and five crossbanded drawers, foliate-moulded ormolu handles surmounted by a crown and with monogram AR, on cabriole legs
32in. (82cm.) high, 49in. (124cm.) wide, 25in. (64cm.) deep
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

With similarities in form and handles to a desk included in a sale of Important European Furniture, Christies, London, 2nd Dec' 1998, lot 159.

With similarties to a desk at Schloss Moritzburg dating from the 1740s (G. Haase Dresdener Möbel um 18 Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, 1983, p.304, fig.119).

The escutcheon and handle displaying the Augustus Rex (d.1733) conjoined 'AR' cypher and his palm framed oval shields ensigned with the Imperial crown is on a commode in the Residenzschloss, Dresden (op.cit. fig.126, cat.38).