Antique Austrian Baroque Biedermeier Marquetry Roll Top Tabernacle Cabinet Desk Circa 1820 Paintings historic Japanese mon symbols

historic Japanese mon symbols

This most unusual chair by Robert Mitchell (formerly Mitchell and Rammelsberg) follows a Savanarola form of the 15th Century chairs of the Italian Renaissance and has it roots from the chairs of ancient Rome

This event followed the confiscation of more than one thousand of his works from German museums during the Nazi purge of "degenerate" art

He has been the recipient of several awards including an OAC fellowship

Antique Austrian Baroque Biedermeier Marquetry Roll Top Tabernacle Cabinet Desk Circa 1820 Paintings historic Japanese mon symbolsA rare & unusual antique Bohemian inlaid marquetry Elm tabernacle cabinet and desk, Austria, circa 1820. The cabinet in two sections, the top with an arched pediment, the sides of the cabinet are canted & have carved & reticulated brackets, both the sides and front of the cabinet are very finely inlaid with floral and geometric marquetry. The door to the center is inlaid with three ebony & satinwood Neo Classical columns with a single drawer below and