Antique Austrian Biedermeier Mahogany Secretary Desk Tabernacle Cabinet 1820 Decorative Arts using frottage

using frottage

he returned permanently to Berlin in 1848

Eastern Persia or Herat

Lord Ganesha

in response to the Spanish Civil War

Antique Austrian Biedermeier Mahogany Secretary Desk Tabernacle Cabinet 1820 Decorative Arts using frottageA fine, elegant, antique Austrian mahogany Biedermeier secretary desk cabinet, circa 1820. The cabinet in two sections, the top with a curved architectural pediment, below is a curved door tabernacle cupboard, flanked by a pair of columns with gilt bronze bases and capitals. The base with a series of four graduated drawers with shield shaped lock plate escutcheons inlaid with bone, to the center is a fall front writing surface enclosing a fitted