Furniture and Interior Design
Catalog Information: 258 lots | 257 with images
Date: 2005
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: w - A PAIR OF BRONZE FIGURES AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA, CIRCA 1880
h.88cm.cast as Venus and MercuryQuantity: 2
Lot 2: w - A COLLECTION OF DECORATIVE BOXES, LATE 19TH CENTURY
height of tallest 38cm.comprising three leather gaming boards, a painted wooden toilet mirror, a leather specimen box, a painted tin box and five other leather boxesQuantity: 11
Lot 3: w - A MAHOGANY AND INLAID BIJOUTERIE, CIRCA 1890
CIRCA 1890h.75cm., w.71cm., d.50cm.of kidney shaped form
Lot 4: w - A PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE AND MARBLE CANDELABRA, CIRCA 1860
h.73cm.each in the form of a cherubQuantity: 2
Lot 5: w - A VERY FINE GERMAN GILT BRONZE-MOUNTED FRUITWOOD INLAID WALNUT MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY COMMODE, ATTRIBUTED TO THE BROTHERS JOHANN FRIEDRICH AND HEINRICH WILHELM SPINDLER, BERLIN CIRCA 1765
h. 79cm., w. 120cm., d. 69cm.NOTEThis commode is an outstanding example of the expressive naturalist style in German furniture making which became fashionable at the Bayreuth Court under the patronage of Frederick the Great's sister Markgrafin Wilhel [...more]
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