ID 1345026
Lot 58 | A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SYCAMORE, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY CYLINDER BUREAU
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 400 000
BY DAVID ROENTGEN, CIRCA 1775
With a galleried top above three frieze drawers, the cylinder roll-top inlaid with a scene of a Chinese gentleman, bird-seller and attendants, the slide at the front activated by springs, the central frieze drawer flanked by two deep drawers each swinging open to reveal a hinged compartment enclosing further drawers, the marquetry to the sides with ribbon-tied bouquets, on cabriole legs headed by satyr masks and terminating in lion's paw sabots, partially later mounted
45 ½ in. (116 cm.) high, 45 ½ in. (116 cm.) wide, 24 ½ in. (62.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Sir Robert Abdy, 5th Bt., Newton Ferrers, Cornwall.
Acquired from Galerie Segoura, Paris.
Literature
H. Huth, Abraham und David Roentgen, Berlin, 1928, p. 62 (illustrated, fig. 13).
P. Ramond, Masterpieces of Marquetry, Los Angeles, 2000, vol. 3, p. 800.
W. Koeppe et. al., exhibition catalogue, Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, New York, 2013, pp. 106-107, cat. no. 23.
Exhibited
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, October 2012 - January 2013, cat. no. 23.
| Artist: | David Roentgen (1743 - 1807) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Amaranth, Gold, Sycamore, Wood |
| Art style: | Rococo |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Desks and bureaus |
| Artist: | David Roentgen (1743 - 1807) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Amaranth, Gold, Sycamore, Wood |
| Art style: | Rococo |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Desks and bureaus |
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