Biedermeier desk

Cherry veneer; 110 x 142 x 78 cm.
Austria, Vienna, ca. 1832.
With a settee - secretary - with straight sides, with a flap sliding under the top and a folding front, supported by two cabinets with three drawers, with rounded lower corners, supported on turned feet, veneered with patterned cherry veneer. In the interior, storage compartments on the sides, drawers and niches. The edges of the furniture and the divisions of the body highlighted with flakes of grain contrasting with the other surfaces. The top flap is finished with a quarter round, and the corners of the settee with turned caps.
Lit. by Rainer Haaff, "Biedermeier-welten. Menchen, Möbel, Metropolen," Engelsbrand 2009, cat. no. 1074.