Lot

15 x 20 x 12 cm

wood sculpture

Richly-checked miniature dresser, the top inlaid with an ebony star and fruit wood centered by a mother-of-pearl flower, surrounded by framed colored fruity woods encrusted by fructible woods. By a striped edge, sides encrusted with cubes surrounded by a similar edge, the front with three drawers, each with three panels of inlaid hubs and with bronze handles of Ormolu, on tapered legs lined with similar strips. Germany, around 1780. It was acquired at auction and it is reproduced in the respective catalog of Sotheby‘s in London, dated October 17 and 18, 1996, on page 54 and 57, LOT 223.