Lombard inlaid secretaire Neoclassical 18th century

Neoclassical style citronnier bookcase, base with side panelled doors and three central drawers, riser with side glass doors, centrally has one drawer and panelled door inlaid with v...

Neoclassical bedside table late 18th century Lombardy. The cabinet is veneered in rosewood, maple, boxwood, and other light-colored woods for inlays; both the front in which the door is housed and the sides are made with a lowered central panel in rosewood, with an octagonal reserve in the center enclosed by an inlaid molded frame; the reserves on a maple background feature architectural inlay with whimsy, temples, statues, and figures. The panels are set in double frames with brass-plated cornices and rosewood veneer arranged head-on and herringbone. An inlaid frame in the base borders the four truncated pyramid feet, and another supports the top in which an alps green marble top is embedded. Lacks and restorations, walnut interior. The cabinet is close to the production of Giovanni Maffezzoli...

Tuscan neoclassical suite, consisting of dresser and two nightstands. The dresser features a drop-down door that conceals three drawers inside with bronze pulls, and the nightstands ...

Chest built from wood dating back to the 17th century. Top and sides made of painted wood, undercounter frame and richly carved and gilded front depicting putti in the central reserv...

Large and important French Secretaire. Impressive piece of furniture of excellent cabinetry. Externally, the cabinet looks like a cabinet with drawers and a large door finely inlaid ...

Secretaire with fluted pilasters and two-door bottom part and white marble shelf and fire-gilded fittings. Behind the writing flap with green leather there are more drawers and compa...

Description Walnut and cedar wood coin cabinet, carved and painted. Linear front punctuated by twelve drawers framing a portal surmounted by a gable, which can be opened and removed,...

The slender secretaire on an unusual high stand with four curved legs dived into quarters, the frame with a central inlaid palmette motif. The fall down writing flap, enclosing a fitted interior with numerous drawers, above and below are two doors enclosing one shelf. The top of the secretaire in form of a classical triangular pediment, the center of which is decorated with an inlaid stylized anthemion. The entire front is very plain and geometrical, divided into six panels inlaid with rectangular fields in light wood. The design of this mahogany secretaire is based on classical Roman and Greek models, in this case the bookcases that were portrayed on frescoes, reliefs and Roman gold glass. As secretaires were not known in Antiquity, Abildgaard designed his secretaire as a cupboard though in such a way, that the two centre doors are actually a fall front writing top. The carved turned underframe is inspired by Etruscan footstools, which were known especially from reliefs and had been reproduced in contemporary prints. Abildgaard designed this piece of furniture far more in accordance with ancient tradition than did the other furniture designer of the day. The most important (and avantgarde) piece of the furniture Abildgaard designed in the first decade of the 19th century, is this secretaire, which marks a real renewal in relation to the secretaires that constituted the master's test for the members of the guild of cabinetmakers at this time. Compared with these, this secretaire is a very light piece of furniture that does not follow the contemporary fashion towards classical architectural decorations such as columns, pillars, architraves, etc. which often endow such pieces. Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (11 September 1743 – 4 June 1809) was a leading Danish Neoclassical painter who also designed (mostly for his own use) elegant Grecian furniture...