A GERMAN ORMOLU MOUNTED WALNUT, FIGURED WALNUT, FRUITWOOD AND IVORY BUREAU CABINET Braunschweig, circa 1780/90 224 x 133 x 60 cm The canted and moulded breakfront top with central pediment above a central door, flanked by pilasters with corinthian capitals, enclosing a fitted compartment with one door and a drawer, above a hinged slope, enclosing a fitted compartment with six drawers and pigeon holes, above two long drawers, on four baluster-shaped feet. Later secret drawers behind the compartment of upper part. Additions, damages due to age, rest. One of the ivory figures replaced with putty. Old German aristocratic property, Rimburg Castle near Aachen. A similar bureau cabinet from the Landesmuseum Braunschweig cf. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, Vol. III, fig. 73.