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Lot 422 Dα

A Neoclassical chest of drawers

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
17.05.2023, 14:00 - Furniture Decorative Arts
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €

A Neoclassical chest of drawers

Polychrome and gilded softwood, gilt metal and tin mountings, iron locks. Three drawer cabinet on short, tapering legs of square section. The front with carved architrave and accentuated lock plates. The slanted angles accentuated with Classical mascarons above ivy twined staves. With some minor losses to the polychromy. H 82.5, W 148.4, D 63 cm.
Northern Europe, attributed to Sweden or Denmark, late 18th C.

Literature

Cf. the furnishings of Liselung and the Neoclassical rooms of Frederiksborg in Redslob (ed.), Alt=Dänemark, Munich 3/1922, illus. 187 and 270.