AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED, MAHOGANY AND PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY SERRE-BIJOUX
VIENNA, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, ADAPTED IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY
AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED, MAHOGANY AND PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY SERRE-BIJOUX VIENNA, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, ADAPTED IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY The rectangular shaped hinged top with canted angles, and pierced frieze with trailing vine motif enclosing a well, above two doors with ribbed borders and each centered by a ribbon-tied foliate wreath, revealing six mahogany-lined drawers, the sides conformingly mounted, above stiff-leaf and pearl mouldings, on square tapering legs joined by a concave-fronted three-quarter galleried undertier, and terminating in square sabots, the drawers and hinged mechanism of the top probably of later date, the sides originally hinged, the left side signed and dated to the inside 'Franz Sontag - 1894' (probably the restorer and date of the restoration work), some mouldings missing 37¼ in. (94.5 cm.) high; 26½ in. (67.5 cm.) wide; 14¼ in. (36 cm.) deep
AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED, MAHOGANY AND PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY SERRE-BIJOUX
VIENNA, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, ADAPTED IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY
AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED, MAHOGANY AND PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY SERRE-BIJOUX VIENNA, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, ADAPTED IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY The rectangular shaped hinged top with canted angles, and pierced frieze with trailing vine motif enclosing a well, above two doors with ribbed borders and each centered by a ribbon-tied foliate wreath, revealing six mahogany-lined drawers, the sides conformingly mounted, above stiff-leaf and pearl mouldings, on square tapering legs joined by a concave-fronted three-quarter galleried undertier, and terminating in square sabots, the drawers and hinged mechanism of the top probably of later date, the sides originally hinged, the left side signed and dated to the inside 'Franz Sontag - 1894' (probably the restorer and date of the restoration work), some mouldings missing 37¼ in. (94.5 cm.) high; 26½ in. (67.5 cm.) wide; 14¼ in. (36 cm.) deep
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