Lot Essay
A Swedish cabinet with similar fan-motifs in the corners is illustrated in S. Wallin Nordiska Museets Mobler Fran Svenska Herrenshem, Lund, 1797, vol III, p.24, figs. 854-855.
Details
A Swedish mahogany and marquetry secretaire a abbatant, late 18th/early 19th century
Crossbanded in padouk, decorated with radiating fans and flowerheads, the fall front inlaid with brass lines, enclosing a fitted interior of various drawers and pigeon holes about a central door, above two long drawers and a shallow drawer to the apron flanked by fluted pilasters, on square tapering legs with simulated fluting, on castors, one drawer with indistinct inscriptions, the reverse inscribed in red chalk Apothekaren - Grl ... - Gacarlsson - Marstrand, one drawer with pencil inscription Oskar Andersson, possibly Danish, with two concealed drawers fitted to the reverse
42in. (107cm.) wide, 53¼in. (135cm.) high, 21¼in. (54cm.) deep
Crossbanded in padouk, decorated with radiating fans and flowerheads, the fall front inlaid with brass lines, enclosing a fitted interior of various drawers and pigeon holes about a central door, above two long drawers and a shallow drawer to the apron flanked by fluted pilasters, on square tapering legs with simulated fluting, on castors, one drawer with indistinct inscriptions, the reverse inscribed in red chalk Apothekaren - Grl ... - Gacarlsson - Marstrand, one drawer with pencil inscription Oskar Andersson, possibly Danish, with two concealed drawers fitted to the reverse
42in. (107cm.) wide, 53¼in. (135cm.) high, 21¼in. (54cm.) deep
Provenance
The pharmacist G. A. Carlsson, Marstrand