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Lot 673
Sale 5717 - English & Continental Furniture + Dec. A
Jan 29, 2009
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$7,000 -
10,000
Lot Description
Fine Biedermeier walnut and marquetry bureau bookcase circa 1830
In two parts; the stepped upper section with a cupboard door above a frieze drawer, opening to a single drawer and flanking cupboard doors surmounted by a marquetry inlaid pediment; the lower section with a rolltop opening to two banks of three long drawers and two short drawers centered by a cupboard door within an architectural surround, the pediment and steps fitted as drawers, the steps flanked by a covered sandpot and inkpot, above a slide out writing surface fitted with three slides above two deep drawers raised on short block feet; the upper section with a paper label on the reverse inscribed 'Andreas Hygum, Taulou'.
H: 76 1/2, W: 45, D: 22 1/2 in.