Lot 219 Dα

Johann Gottlob Fiedler's most famous piece of furniture, a writing cabinet dated 1775, is now housed in the collection of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. Its form and marquetry are still entirely indebted to the style of the Friderician late Rococo. Franz Windisch-Graetz discovered two chests of drawers in 1961, dated ten years later, which already display all the characteristics of early courtly classicism. The two pieces of furniture presented here, the secretaire, lot 220, and also the probably somewhat later chiffonière, are to be dated even later, namely to the end of the 18th century. They bear witness to a very Prussian style of their own from the reign of Frederick William III, which clearly contrasts with the French fashion.