Chest of drawers. Berlin, c. 1797-1800. blindwood.... Lot 720

Chest of drawers. Berlin, c. 1797-1800. blindwood. Larch, maple, sycamore, Virginian juniper and Cuban mahogany veneer. Two-door plinth with kneehole, with a full-length writing compartment above. Set back, architecturally structured top. The central section with a shutter, behind it a mirror, small panels with antique-style grisaille painting on a blue background. Elaborately decorated mirror compartment with diced, colored parquet. Columns and pilasters made of white marble with gilded capitals and bases, gilded leaf moldings. Filigree gallery and ball finial. Bronze applications partially gilded. Original locks. Flute mechanism no longer present. Rest. added. H: 202 x 137.5 x 77 cm. Cf. Achim Stiegel, Berliner Möbelkunst vom Ende des 18. bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts, page 394 ff, plates 24 & 25, and Kreissel/ Himmelheber vol. III, ill. 262.