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Lot 1
Sale 5656 - The Collection of Robert & Barbara Safford
Sep 25, 2013
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$40,000 -
60,000
Price Realized
$210,000
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Very fine gilt metal mounted Meissen porcelain and giltwood secretaire cabinet circa 1880
Of architectural form and in two sections, the tiered top with baluster gallery, one single short drawer and two drawers to the sides, above long frieze drawer, and two panelled cupboard doors flanked by two full porcelain columns, opening to a long drawer over a secret four-sided rotating unit comprising a bank of three drawers, four figures emblematic of the seasons set into niches on another side, on the remaining sides a coat of arms of Saxony and a mirror, with two full floral-encrusted columns between, the lower section with porcelain inset sliding section above frieze drawer, above two panelled cupboard doors interspersed with three full columns, raised on plinth base with porcelain bun feet.
H: 71 1/2, W: 41, D: 19 in.