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Johann Friedrich und Heinrich Wilhelm Spindler: SIGNIFICANT WOODEN SECRETAIRE À TROIS CORPS WITH THE - SIGNIFICANT WOODEN SECRETAIRE À TROIS CORPS WITH THE COAT OF ARMS OF THOSE OF BRANDENSTEIN. Spindler, Johann Friedrich und Heinrich Wilhelm. Potsdam. Date: Ca. 1765. Technique: Softwood corpus. Walnut, walnut root wood, maple, birch burr, mother of pearl amongst others. Fruit woods veneered. Original fire-gilt bronze fittings. Description: Slightly curved chest of drawers with two drawers sans traverse on high, slightly flared legs. The frame is extended in an apron shape and curved to fit. A curved cartouche running across both drawers in the centre, containing a large floral arrangement with tulips, bluebells and others. On the chest of drawers with a tray-like extended edge, a writing attachment with two drawers one above the other on each side and a central writing flap. Two cartouches with shepherd's idylls in flap symmetry. The tabernacle top with a wide, continuous drawer and three smaller drawers on each side above it. The slightly arched tabernacle door with Neptune and naiads is in the centre. The pediment-shaped rising headboard in the centre bears the coat of arms of the von Brandenstein family with a wolf carrying a goose in its mouth. Measurement: Ca. 210x126x68cm. Mark: Verso old sticky note with handwritten illegible notes. Provenance: Corporate collection Münsterland. Acquired from Antiquitäten Neidhardt, Munich, 1984. Literature: Kreisel, Heinrich: Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels, volume 2, Munich 1970. On the type of the intarsia decor see the chests ill.790, 791, 793. Johann Friedrich und Heinrich Wilhelm Spindler Germany Furniture Explanations to the Catalogue Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction.