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Pair of Austrian veneered columns with lion's paw Biedermeier circa1840s
Located in Milano, IT
Elegant pair of Austrian columns veneered in blond mahogany and ebonized wood and decorated with lion's paw. Black marble top.
Biedermeier Era circa 1840.
Origin Austria.
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Antique Mid-19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Desks and Writing Tables
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Belgian Black Marble
English Victorian Ministerial mahogany desk 15 drawers, circa 1860, scrivania
Located in Milano, IT
Antique ministerial desk.
English mahogany office desk with 15 drawers, dating back to the mid-Victorian period, circa 1860.
Construction of the highest quality and proportion for th...
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Antique Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Desks and Writing Tables
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Mahogany
French Napoleon II mahogany and gilt bronze center desk circa 1855
Located in Milano, IT
French center desk with solid mahogany veneer frame decorated with mercury-gilt bronzes such as sphinx heads, lion paws and friezes.
Top covered in leather. Two drawers.
Napoleon III era, Second Empire, ca. 1851/55.
Dimensions: H. 77 cm. L. 135 cm. D. 70 cm.
Notes
Under the influence of Marie Antoinette, French artists began to draw inspiration from the 18th-century archaeological discoveries made in the Mediterranean during the time of Louis XVI. After the Revolution of 1789, under the Consulate of Napoleon Bonaparte (1799-1804), the Egyptian campaign drew even more attention to one of the cradles of civilizations.
The "retour d'Egypte" style culturally and artistically had great success in France and Europe and reached as far as Russia; but much of this "Egyptomania" was politically driven to divert attention from the military failure of this campaign (defeat at Abukir, destruction of the French fleet by Admiral Nelson). The peak of this style's success was reached when the book "voyages dans le Basse et la Haute Egypte pendants les campagnes du general Bonaparte" by Dominique Vivant Denon...
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Antique 1850s French Napoleon III Desks and Writing Tables
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Bronze
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